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Beating to Windward | Greg Clarke | Australia, Tasmania, Tasmania

Surely Robert Louis Stevenson or Jules Verne conjured the scene that greets me: an unreconstructed beach, sand almost as white as Hollywood teeth, a brigantine moored in a sheltering cove

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Beer and Bamako | Greg Clarke

Any debate about which is the more deleterious, a flogging or the Bamako train, would have me spiritedly championing the train.

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Canada - Vancouver to Montreal | Greg Clarke | Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe…

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Epiphanies in Tasmania | Greg Clarke

This Luddite’s nirvana is surrounded by broad mountains whose brief, surely, is to keep sybarites at bay

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Jet Fighter Riding | Greg Clarke | Australia, Victoria, Melbourne

The runway, a Second World War landing strip that has seen better repair, stretches toward distant trees and fields. In the cockpit the sounds of a jet engine winding its way to power is a distant noise, barely audible…

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One Ouagadougou Night | Greg Clarke

I have travelled to Ouagadougou from Mali and am enroute to West Africa’s Gold Coast when Ouagadougou and I have an unexpected interlude...

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Riding the Outrigger Canoe | Greg Clarke | Philippines, Visayas, Pamalican Island

Despite the soakings and breakdowns, the various forms of the outrigger are, like the white sand beaches and fishing villages, part of the island-hopping experience

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Sahara Crossing | Greg Clarke | Morocco, Southern Morocco, Sahara

There is no road from Nouackchott to Tiouilit. For the last hundred metres of our five-day desert crossing we had to wait two hours for low tide so we could drive along a beach to the Mauritanian capital

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The Incidental Tourist | Greg Clarke | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

There are many ways for those fond of travel to tell they are getting old.

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W Sydney | Greg Clarke | Australia, New South Wales, Sydney

Contrary to what might seem a rational contraction, the W Sydney does not derive its name from Wooloomooloo

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Walking the Great Ocean Road | Greg Clarke

On this spectacularly deserted beach we take shelter under the lee of a towering, fortress-like cliff and have a lunch of barbecue leftovers

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Wombats Reign on Maria Island | Greg Clarke | Australia, Tasmania, Maria Island

There are neither private vehicles nor predators on Maria and in the absence of the usual threats the wombats are so chuffed about the short odds of reaching retirement age they are readily seen sashaying about during the day

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