Freespirit Magazine

It’s taken nearly two years – the first A380 commercial flight was by Singapore Airlines, Singapore-Sydney on 25 October 2007 – but I’ve finally flown on the new double-decker Airbus. There are now 17 of them in operation and when I turned up at Los Angeles to fly home to Melbourne my Qantas flight was on their 3rd A380. The 4th Qantas A380 is due next month.

The Kenai Peninsula

I’m in Alaska travelling with an LPTV film crew making a program for the forthcoming Roads Less Travelled series with National Geographic. I’ve been east and north-west from Anchorage, now I’m heading directly west to the Kenai Peninsula to try clam digging, sailing and sea kayaking with sea otters.

Razor Clams

Just had a great weekend ‘oop north, taking in a game of rugby league, eating a pie in Wigan and wandering along the most impressive parts of Hadrian’s Wall. The only blemish was the trip back. The Virgin Pendalo was an hour late. And my carriage was full of braying upper-class twits returning from a wedding in the Scottish Borders.

Nome

I’m in Alaska travelling with an LPTV film crew making a program for the forthcoming Roads Less Travelled series with National Geographic. I’ve been east of Anchorage across Prince William Sound to McCarthy-Kennecott and the Wrangell-St Elias National Park, now I’m heading north to Nome.

Kennecott & McCarthy

There’s a reason I’ve been a bit quiet lately. I’ve been travelling out in Cornwall and Devon and the coverage out there is lousy.

Otherwise I would have shared this photo of two dogs driving a car in Princetown, a small village in the middle of Dartmoor National Park, sooner.