Articles
Listed below are pages which relate to travel in Australian and New Zealand, but are not about any particular place.
Photography and hiking
- Lightweight travel photography - all you really need
- Minimal gear which is enough for the weight-conscious traveller to get great travel photos
- Rewards of photography in unkind weather
- Examples of photos which can reward those who venture outdoors in uncomfortable weather
- Benefits of camera-free periods
- How putting away the camera occasionally can enhance enjoyment of a scenic place
- Five things I've learned while hiking
- Lessons learned on long hikes in Australia
- Lessons learned on the Bibbulmun Track
- Some things I've learned from one of Australia's great hiking trails
Travel tips
- Playing your own music in rental vehicles
- Gadgets and methods for playing digital music in hired vehicles, and their practicalities
- Reasons to avoid central accommodation
- Seven reasons to consider staying out in the suburbs or out of town, rather than in central locations
- Benefits of revisiting old places
- The rewards of going back to places already visited, instead of only seeking new places
- Travelling light with bulky winter clothing
- Options for single carry-on bag travel when you need bulky clothing at your destination
- Five strategies for travelling light
- Ways to make travel more enjoyable by reducing the load you carry
- Ten reasons to think twice about frequent flyer credit cards
- Why using a rewards card to earn free flights might cost more than the price of the flights
- Reasons to avoid January travel in Australia
- Disadvantages travellers may face in Australia during the summer peak
- Reasons to seek out the least promoted areas
- Being less popular and less advertised doesn't necessarily mean less for the visitor to enjoy
- Internet access in country WA
- Finding PC-based internet access in parts of WA with fewer tourist facilities
Various travel-related musings
- Campervans and cold weather
- The challenges and rewards of campervan travel in Australia in cold winter conditions
- Special places: tell others, or keep quiet?
- The dilemma of wanting to share a place with others while wanting it to stay unspoiled by crowds
- Top travel quotes
- A collection of my favourite quotes containing wisdom relevant to travel
- Winter travel in Australia and New Zealand
- Some advantages of travelling down under in the winter off-season
- Five ways to annoy tourists
- Five strategies to annoy tourists and discourage them from hanging around
- Tasmanian forestry signs
- The public relations messages behind some of the signs you see in Tasmanian forests
- Australia's unappreciated wonders
- About the overlooked and understated nature of so many of Australia's great wonders
