Off The Beaten Track In Hong Kong

I had already had the immense pleasure of being in Hong Kong a couple of times before my employer stationed me there in 2006.  I’d come to like the city very much, but before living there had only really experienced the business life of the Island and the neon night-towns of Wanchai and Lan Kwai…

Local Rules

I guess my first taste of independent travel happened when I was about 10.  Jumping on a train without my parents permission turned out to be an aborted project when a guard with more responsibility than I returned me on the next train back from a station only 12 miles away.  I seem to remember…

The Cane Toad Experience

When a traveller first arrives in Port Douglas, Northern Queensland, he or she would be forgiven for thinking the term ‘Ocean of Calm’ had been coined here. Not just because of the startling sapphire Coral Sea lapping up against its clean sands, and around into the modest marina, but because the atmosphere of the town…