Published Features

Ghosts in the Murk and Mist

JOURNEYS – THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY
BROKEN walls topple, taking their last defenders with them. Canal bridges, city gates and the cathedral burn. Steel clashes with steel, horses’ hoofs pound stone roads and women drag screaming children, the old and infirm towards the hills and mountains. Columns groan and collapse in an apocalypse of billowing dust and smoke.

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Up a magic mountain

DESTINATION AUSTRALIA
UNDER a canopy of mountain palms, primeval smells of black mud and musty rainforest drench the air. Sphagnum moss smothers stunted trunks with bright green velvet, while moorei orchids cling to rotting stumps in an understorey of lichens, staghorns and more than 30 species of fern.

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Fleur’s patch of paradise

THE HUNGRY TOURIST
AFTER a month tramping the wilds of New Zealand’s southwest, surviving on packets of dried hiking food, we sit at a stripped-back table at Fleurs Place in Moeraki on the Otago coast.

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