Craig Tansley
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- Sep 14, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Most people miss these ‘add on’ islands. They’re like nowhere else on Earth (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Here are a few things it pays to remember before you visit South Georgia: first, don’t step on the penguins; second, don’t run if an Antarctic fur seal or a southern elephant seal charges at you (they’re bluffing); and third, don’t be fixated on the islands’ most famous permanent resident – there’s more to South Georgia than downing a shot of whisky beside Ernest Shackleton’s grave. The islands of
I’ve made many dumb mistakes travelling – you can learn from them (opens the original)
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A few years ago I organised a 40th birthday party on a Malaysian island for 10 of our closest friends only to discover I’d booked us in during Ramadan (a month of fasting for Muslims) and we couldn’t get an alcoholic drink, even in our resort. And I once lost my iPhone on Gili Air (off Lombok) and for two months afterwards new photos of towel elephants (snapped by the hotel cleaners/towel elephant makers who must’ve found my phone) kept appearing in the photo library of my new iPhone, despite th
I tried the epic new hiking trail on one of our most beautiful islands (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. If you’re looking to escape the boatloads of eager young backpackers who descend each day on the Whitsundays’ Whitehaven Beach, there is a way to do it. But there’s a catch. You’re the one – not them – who’s going to need a backpack. Not their kind of hefty pack, mind you. A mid-sized hiking one (for about 10 kilos of gear) should do you. Your hiking guides do the hard work – setting up your tent
Meet the pilot with the best job in the world (opens the original)
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When I was 12 years old, I watched Top Gun at the movies and began plotting a life as an elite US Navy pilot (like Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell). So what if I didn’t care for heights, became nauseous on rollercoasters and wasn’t American? It never happened. The fantasy dwindled along with my other teenage objective – to become a bartender at a beach bar in Jamaica, so I could marry the actress, Elizabeth Shue (a dream inspired by 1988’s Cocktail, also starring Cruise). But now, decades
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