Travels with My Hat is a memoir of my adventures as a travel writer in Africa, South Asia and the Arab world. Beautifully designed, it is lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps and includes poignant correspondence with my mother who had never left Australia.
Christine who lives in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, is available for public or private talks. Hear her adventures first-hand, see her photographs and discuss current and historical events with this inspiring solo traveller.
When I would think, well this is what I've come for and the physical and psychological demands of the effort to get here, are now worth it...
When I first set foot in Morocco as a young backpacker in the 1960s, I was captivated by the ever changing desert and mountain scenery, its colourful peoples and fascinating souqs. My book Collins Independent Travellers Guide to Morocco was published in 1990.
Some 1.3 billion people in the world lack access to clean water. Women and children spend an estimated 200 million hours a day hauling water, often over great distances from the source. Here Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa, one of the driest places on earth.
While it is good to see Arab women protesting alongside male demonstrators in the Arab uprisings, it is appalling to learn how at the first opportunity, many men turn to rape. The shocking attack on the CBS journalist in Cairo, … Continue reading
The desert town of Ibra is a fairly ordinary place of some 35,000 people, located 140 kms inland from Muscat, the capital of Oman. For six days of the week there is no apparent reason to stop there but on … Continue reading
A tourist, seeing the cat sitting outside the incense shop, called him Frank. After frankincense. But the cat took no notice. Having sat on the steps of the shop for fifteen years Aziz – for this was his real … Continue reading
