Tim Richards
Spirits of the Tropics: Cairns’ inventive distillers and brewers
Cairns brings us tropical weather that’s perfectly complemented by a refreshing, locally made drink: a gin or a beer or even a...
Book excerpt: Heading South: Far North Queensland to WA by Rail
Dinner was taken outside the train at Rawlinna, another ghost town that lay next to a vast sheep station of the same...
Walk this way to deliciousness: A guide to Bendigo’s dining delights
“People love our vegan cauliflower mac and cheese pie, they go crazy for it.” Clearly regional cities have changed a lot in...
Bendigo: A culture trip with a twist
Laneway bars and rooftop hideouts: This is drinking in Bendigo (no, not Melbourne)
There’s nothing like an old-fashioned Aussie pub, and that’s exactly what the Old Boundary Hotel is: a cosy old-school place with bare...
Move over Melbourne, Bendigo is Australia’s surprising new City of Gastronomy
There’s a city in Victoria that’s famous for its food and wine. It has good coffee and laneway bars and trams and...
Tim Richards: What it’s like travelling north on The Ghan in the era of COVID-19
“Next!” It’s normal in Eastern Europe for border guards to stop a train and inspect your visa, but this was the first...
A dream of trains – from luxury sleepers to intercity rattlers
Locked down in my apartment in Melbourne’s CBD, I dreamt of trains. For the past decade I’ve increasingly written about rail travel,...
Unexpected things I’ve learned in COVID lockdown (and want to keep in my life)
The most surprising thing I’ve discovered during the COVID-19 lockdown? How well this apocalypse is being catered. In TV shows and movies...
A lonelier planet? Why the best journeys are still found in the pages of printed guidebooks
“Buy me a beer!” I was on a bus in the Bieszczady range of the Carpathian Mountains, and the request came from...