Freespirit Magazine

Way back in 1973 Maureen and I published the first Lonely Planet guidebook. We were living in a basement flat in the Paddington, a suburb of Sydney. That's Maureen 37 years ago at the kitchen table where we put together that first book. She's still a Dylan fan.

Teva, the company that designs great hiking shoes and sandals, is launching a new program that will give a handful of luck winners an opportunity to win $10,000 to send them on an adventure of a lifetime.

I got an email from John Sjoholm the other day. He’d bought himself a Kindle and was wondering if any of my books were available as eBooks.

The short answer is no. It seems my publishers are determined to follow the lead of the music industry and put their heads in the sand, hoping the whole digital thing will go away.

I got an email from John Sjoholm the other day. He’d bought himself a Kindle and was wondering if any of my books were available as eBooks.

The short answer is no. It seems my publishers are determined to follow the lead of the music industry and put their heads in the sand, hoping the whole digital thing will go away.

It always makes me laugh when I see one of those columns where they ask someone who they’d like to sit next to on a plane or at a dinner party and the person nominates Bill Bryson. I’ve sat next to (or near) Bill at two dinners and didn’t hear a peep out of him at either.

Those of you expecting him to be some kind of raconteur, holding forth with a glass of wine in his hand and having everyone rolling around on the floor laughing, would be sadly disappointed.

It always makes me laugh when I see one of those columns where they ask someone who they’d like to sit next to on a plane or at a dinner party and the person nominates Bill Bryson. I’ve sat next to (or near) Bill at two dinners and didn’t hear a peep out of him at either.

Those of you expecting him to be some kind of raconteur, holding forth with a glass of wine in his hand and having everyone rolling around on the floor laughing, would be sadly disappointed.

A big thanks to Darryn Martin at Easyspace for sorting out the problems with my slideshows.

For those of you who are technically minded, the php.ini file needed tinkering with after a server reboot.

A big thanks to Darryn Martin at Easyspace for sorting out the problems with my slideshows.

For those of you who are technically minded, the php.ini file needed tinkering with after a server reboot.