‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness’

Saturday, 16 March 2024
9:00 am 10:00 am

Darley Smith Building 1 Darley Road Manly, NSW, 2095 Australia (map)

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… So wrote Mark Twain. We speak to three travel writers about how their experiences trotting around the globe has helped make them better people and better writers, as well as how to be a good traveller, their hot spots for 2024, their travel mishaps and wonder moments, and how the travel landscape is changing.

In conversation with Amanda Austen.

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Ben Groundwater is a Sydney-based writer, columnist, author, blogger and broadcaster who specialises in food and travel. He writes weekly for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers.

Helen Hayes headed off on her first European adventure at the age of 23, and travel has been a driving force ever since.

Rachel Lees is a travel writer from the Northern Beaches, who writes regularly for Escape, Body + Soul, Qantas, The Times (UK) and Priority (Singapore).