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...

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

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

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

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

Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, March 16 2018 The Peranakan people are all about cultural collision. The Peranakan are the...

Qantas Travel Insider, January 2018 Nowhere else in Singapore looks like this. Just a few metres back from one of the city’s teeming...

Qantas magazine, November 2016 Back in the early 1980s, the playwright Alan Bleasdale was looking for an image to convey the utter misery...

The Independent, September 2 2015 The country will soon be opening up again after years of isolation. Soon, there'll be the chance for...

AFR Sophisticated Traveller, September 2016 Disaster almost confined the ancient town to fiction. Chris Wright finds it revived, mystique...

Qantas: The Australian way, April 2014 “Some day I will go to Aarhus To see his peat-brown head, The mild pods of his eye-lids, His...

Qantas: The Australian Way, July 2013 The Australian Way is in Bonifacio, Corsica, cycling a segment of the opening stage of this year’s...

Qantas: The Australian Way, November 2012 In a dimly lit corner of an Arizona hotel ballroom, a handful of elderly gentlemen sit in two...

Discovery Channel Magazine, September 2012 We wanted to write about conspiracy, about cover-ups, about what we don’t know; about strange...

Qantas: The Australian Way, 2012 In July 1986, Life magazine visited US Route 50, a stretch of road that crosses Nevada east to west....

Discovery Channel Magazine, March 2012 It is two in the morning when we blow a tyre, four thousand metres up in the Pamir Mountains and...

Qantas: The Australian Way, March 2012 The Yangzi is one of the handful of iconic rivers that everyone knows of, even if they’ve never...

Qantas: The Australian Way, February 2012 Is there any animal so obstinately intent on its own demise as the giant panda? They are...

Qantas: The Australian Way, December 2011 In 1997, Arundhati Roy’s book, The God of Small Things, introduced the world to the southern...

Qantas The Australian Way, October 2011 Two South Korean soldiers stand facing north, fists bunched, in a taekwando stance, staring...

Air Magazine, December 2010 There is a signboard at the start of the track up Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in southeast Asia,...

Discovery Channel Magazine, December 2010 The locals call it the gates of hell. And you don’t have to get too close to see why. Deep in...

Qantas: The Australian Way, April 2010 An unlikely perfect storm of circumstances made the Liberty a perfect wreck dive, wading distance...

Discovery Channel Magazine, August 2010 Deep in the deserts of Saudi Arabia sits one of the great archaeological marvels of the Middle...