Chris Wright AFR Sophisticated Traveller, May 23 2024   Read the article as it ran in the AFR here If the agony of running a 42.2...

AFR, October 5 2023 Read the article as it ran here   Take a look at a map of Lithuania. On its west side you’ll see a thin ribbon of...

AFR Sophisticated Traveller, May 19 2023 Read the article is it ran here   So this is what happened. My wife and I turned 50 five weeks...

Meet the people for whom visiting all of Earth's 193 UN-recognised countries is just the start. AFR Sophisticated Traveller, November 24...

It’s all about the dunes. Before sunrise you leave your lodge and drive along one of Namibia’s few tarred roads, paved to avoid...

Euromoney, April 2022 In frozen far northern Alberta, one finds perhaps the world’s least likely sovereign wealth fund, investing...

Look, I don’t want to rub it in, but I spent last week in the Bavarian Alps. I walked every day in fresh mountain air. Cow bells rang and...

Euromoney, October 2019 Tiny Bhutan has a big claim to fame: the world’s first, and only, country that can claim to be not only carbon...

AFR Sophisticated Traveller, October 2019 Mount Everest has had a bad press of late. There have been too many deaths on the mountain and...

Harlem church tours have become a New York Sunday morning tourist attraction. They can have an uncomfortable voyeuristic feeling, but...

So it was like this. I got a message from my friend Heath, who was on his way from Busselton in Western Australia to Gold Coast in...

AFR Sophisticated Traveller, August 1 2019 Being put on the spot by an awkward question led banking executive Neal Cross to spend...

A large industry exists around the site of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway, where thousands were worked to death in World War Two. It...

Travelwrighter.com, October 2018 It is 3am and the air is roaring. The sound is coming from jeeps, hundreds of them, climbing the steep...

Australian Financial Review Sophisticated Traveller, October 2018 The only place you can see humans launched into space today is in...

Euromoney, October 2018 GoPay is considered southeast Asia's answer to Ant Financial. Its CEO comes with a background in the most micro...

Euromoney, September 2018 Neal Cross brought a range of unusual experience to his job at chief innovation officer at DBS, one of the...

The Cook Islands' crown jewel is the lagoon of Aitutaki What’s your mental picture of the South Pacific? Mine was a lagoon. Clear, blue,...

While concerns grow about the health of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia's Indian Ocean coast boasts one just as grand but far less...

Big, beautiful, spiritual, frozen. A few days on Lake Baikal gives you a new perspective A version of this article ran in Metro newspaper...