Feb
28
We recently spent 12 days in Melbourne, Australia, on a magazine assignment, getting a taste of the Melbourne food scene for a story we called ‘Mouthwatering Melbourne’. I took 4,712 images. Because of the tight schedule, one of my goals was to shoot it all with natural light, no flash. With a lot of these shoots, we …
Feb
28
Over coming weeks we’re going to be sharing some appetizing stories from Australia, starting with posts on mouthwatering Melbourne. How did we come to be here? From Bangkok we flew via Dubai to Melbourne. We left Australia in 1998 but in recent years we’ve tried to return each year for Christmas, yet our ‘grand tour’ …
Feb
27
We spent a lot of time in 2011 in South East Asia. Based out of Bangkok for four months while researching a book and working on stories, we bounced across the region on assignments, around Thailand, along the Mekong, and to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It’s since we left, while posting our Asian stories, that we’ve …
Feb
24
It’s hard to envisage one person being able to provide a local guide to The Mekong. The Mekong River runs a distance of over 4,909 km from the Tibetan plateau to the Mekong Delta, where it flows into the South China Sea and the combined population of the Mekong Region is nearly 325 million, with …
Feb
23
How to meet locals when you travel – does the world really need another story on the subject? Surely we’ve written enough on the topic? We’ve said before that what we love most about travel is meeting locals and we’ve shared tips on how to meet locals. Is there anything more to be said? How …
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