David Whitley
Travel writer
David Whitley is a freelance travel writer based in the UK. He has a taste for unusual experiences and oddities with a great story behind them.Connect via Twitter.
No Michelangelo, but Rome’s other Sistine Chapel is just as impressive
The extraordinary is everywhere in the Eternal City, and the best thing about this second Sistine Chapel is that you won’t have to fight through the crowds.
- David Whitley
Inside one of the greatest engineering achievements in human history
From outside, this vast construction is about size, scale and spectacle. Once inside, it becomes more about appreciating how the whole thing holds together.
- David Whitley
America’s most beautiful city is unlike anywhere else
Sedona is like a greatest-hits package of the world’s most beautiful cities, all rolled into one.
- David Whitley
- Opinion
- Culture holidays
The signs of a truly great city (London has thousands of them)
Hurtling between conventional attractions without pausing to look and read means you miss out on so much.
- David Whitley
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- Airport reviews
London’s once-awful airport is Europe’s most improved
If they’d only increased the natural light, this could have been a perfect makeover.
- David Whitley
One of the world’s weirdest cruises is in the heart of a desert
Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that turns out to be real.
- David Whitley
How London’s most famous bridge ended up half a world away
London Bridge is falling down? Not quite – it was disassembled and reconstructed brick by brick in another country.
- David Whitley
How travelling with kids made me see Sydney differently
With two youngsters in tow, the city requires a different approach – and a new perspective unveils a very different place.
- David Whitley
I never liked the Gold Coast. Now, as a parent, I love it
It would be fair to say that I have never previously clicked with the Gold Coast, but returning with kids in tow changed my perspective.
- David Whitley
Eclipsed by its hip neighbour, this town has two things Byron doesn’t
Amid the glamorous surrounds of a Bunnings car park, the Big Prawn rises like Kilimanjaro from the plains.
- David Whitley
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