Canada
Learning the right way to paddle
In the far north-west, help can get you safely out of your comfort zone.
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Elspeth Callender
Elspeth considered being a fiction writer until she started travelling the world and realised nothing is more fascinating to her than real people’s true stories. She is based in lutruwita/Tasmania.
Cruising
Cruising Asia with a personal approach
Elspeth Callender finds cruising no barrier to authentic connections with the locals.
Switzerland
The Swiss slopes made for ski virgins
I'm as fresh to skiing as the virgin snow that fell last night on the cobbled streets of St Moritz.
US
The US hotel that's all class
It's a hotel experience that's inseparable from that offered by Union Station.
Canada
Six of the best: Vancouver heritage hotels
From grand staircases to speakeasy-esque rooms; escape into the past at these six Vancouver hotels.
USA
Where hipsters shop for cowboy threads
You don't have to be the real thing to wear the real thing.
Cruising
Small ship cruising: a survival guide
A small ship is like a large family with its mix of individuals required to function, for a time, as a single live-in entity.
Flight test: Airline's president also flies the plane
It's just good old-fashioned service and the airline's president is also the pilot.
Indonesia's island of mysterious coloured lakes
Visitors to this Indonesian island need to see these strange lakes in craters.
Why America is obsessed with ice houses
The neighbourhood ice house was and is still the gathering place for locals in Texas.
Jamaica
Getting to know Bob Marley's Jamaica
A visit to the birthplace of the king of reggae reveals a Jamaica that is anything but its authentic self.
Cruising
Luxury sail out of the comfort zone
This is a ship that can sail where the bigger cruise ships can't.
Three Hummock Island's weird gift to visitors
Life has a different pace on Three Hummock Island, but some social norms are universal.
It's kosher: An authentic New York City deli experience
First time in New York and Elspeth Callender has a hunger for an authentic deli.
The artist provocateur
A Czech sculptor pokes at Prague’s political hypocrisies, writes Elspeth Callender.
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