Travel Tales: Stephanie Ling
Name: Stephanie Ling Age: 42 Occupation: Mum of 2, wife of 1, sister of 2, daughter of 2 which includes helping them run their lock/hardware company Favourite travel destination?: I love to be by the ocean under the sun, somehow being on either a white or grey sandy beach soothes and calms my body and soul and puts [...]
Travel Tales: Eli Wolfe
Name: Eli Wolfe Occupation: Artist, musician and filmmaker Favourite travel destination?: Planet earth, because there’s so much to see here. Its sounds clichéd but each place we have toured through we have found true beauty in. The variety and dynamic of experience and interaction varies so much. It’s like singling out the myriad of colours in [...]
Travel Tales: Simon Bernardi
Name: Simon Bernardi Occupation: Group General Manager Wholesale, The Jetset Travelworld Group Favourite travel destination?: I have many favourites depending on my mood and how long since I was last there. One of my favourites, which I try to get to every year with my family, is Hawaii – its fantastic! Easy to get to and affordable, it’s got everything [...]
Travel Tales: Paul Lin
Name: Paul Lin Age: 29 Occupation: CEO/Founder of Buuna Favourite travel destination?: Outside of Australia, it would have to be the USA. Because the US and US culture is often taken for granted by the rest of the world, people often forget what a big country the US is, how much culture and history they’ve developed over the last [...]
Travel Tales
Name: Ben Hutchings Age: 28 Occupation: Manager, Paperbark Camp Favourite travel destination?: Berlin because, for me, travel success is gauged on the people I meet along the way. I try to shy away from tourist traps and generally won’t even visit the proclaimed ‘must see’ sites to a destination as I seek true community fun. [...]
Travel Tales
Name: Gareth ‘Gigpiglet’ Stuckey Age: 30 Occupation: Tour/Artist Manager and Record Producer Favourite travel destination?: Mmmmm I like the travel nearly as much as the destination. Lets say New York. Or Paris. Why?: New York: ‘Cause it’s all there … everything. Nothing you can’t do and nothing you can’t be. Paris: Because nothing is there! It’s [...]
Travel Tales: Philip Engelberts, Director of boutique travel PR agency
Name: Philip Engelberts Age: 44 Occupation: Director of boutique PR agency specialising in travel and tourism clients. Favourite travel destination: Thailand – for its people, its culture, its food and its shopping! Worst travel experience: Being stuck in San Francisco (a city I love by the way!) for three nights in a row, unable to [...]
Travel Tales: Roderick Eime, Travel Journalist and Web Publisher
Name: Roderick Eime Age: Generation Jones Occupation: Travel journalist and web publisher Favourite travel destination?: Papua New Guinea, particularly their remote islands. They are wild, raw and always surprising. Great people. Worst travel experience?: Left my passport and wallet in the taxi, forgot my USA visa waiver, nearly missed my flight, booked the wrong hotel [...]
Travel Tales: Julie Tyers, journalist, mother and domestic goddess
Name: Julie Tyers Age: 42 Occupation: Journalist, mother and domestic goddess Favourite travel destination? Why?: Close call between Koh Samui and NYC – but I reckon Thailand wins as it never fails to relax and nourish me on many levels. Worst travel experience?: Last June we flew to the UK with our two kids. On [...]
Travel Tales: Lisa Perkovic, journalist and photographer
Name: Lisa Perkovic Occupation: My email signature says journalism and photography but on top of that I’m Deputy Editor of Digital Photography Magazine and have a travel blog attached to my website. I’ve contributed to Australian Traveller, Luxury Travel, Get Up and Go, Photoshop Australia and the SMH and Sun Herald travel sections. Favourite travel [...]
