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Lee Tulloch

Lee Tulloch

Travel columnist

Lee is a best-selling novelist, columnist, editor and writer. Her distinguished career stretches back more than three decades, and includes 12 years based between New York and Paris. Lee specialises in sustainable and thoughtful travel.Connect via Twitter.

Australian passports have sophisticated security features, but once you have provided its details to a third party, you’ve lost control of that data.

I tried to save a few dollars on my new passport. What was I thinking?

I hate my passport photo. It looks like a grim mug shot, taken in a line-up after I’d been arrested on a drunk and disorderly charge.

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The new Okura Hotel lobby in Tokyo is the coolest in the world.

The coolest hotel lobby, in the coolest city, in the world

This hotel is worth a detour when you’re in Tokyo, even if you’re not staying there.

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You can still end up in a middle seat in Qantas’ premium economy cabin.

I was upgraded to premium economy. I wish I’d stayed in cattle class

Anything is better than economy class on a long haul, right? Wrong.

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Inside Cinili Hamam.

Getting naked here is the best $175 I’ve ever spent

I’ve been soaped and scrubbed in bathhouses in Morocco and Spain many times, yet I’d never experienced one of the most famous types.

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The Great Barrier Reef is under threat.

To lose one tourism icon is a misfortune. To lose two? Carelessness

If we lose these two icons, the effect on tourism will ultimately be the least of our problems.

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In the 1980s New York, and the US more generally, was hypnotic.

I lived in America for 10 years. Now I don’t even want to visit

With the Aussie dollar down and big changes in the US, there are many more fascinating (and affordable) places where we can spend our money.

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Packing perfection … there’s always a better way.

A skipping rope, a shower cap, straws: Surprisingly clever packing hacks

Neon tape and vertical packing? A genius hack is just a click away – and it could change your travels forever.

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SunFeb20cover ; Highways to heaven / Vantastic extract ; text by Sue Williams (supplied image, no syndication)  Downloaded from QLD tourism image libraryCampervan driving on a dirt road through Chillagoe - Mungana Caves National ParkMandatory credit: Tourism and Events Queensland/ Tourism Tropical North Queensland

My sophisticated friend is giving up the city for a van. He’s not alone

He’s the kind of urbane person who is very discerning about the aesthetics of his life. I can’t imagine him living in a motorhome.

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I was a late-comer to Athens.

Why did I wait so long to visit Athens? My 13 travel highlights of 2024

From discovering Athens for the first time to reconnecting with the reopened Southern Ocean Lodge, here are the moments that really shone for me in 2024.

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That long beach and the Sheraton Grand Mirage Port Douglas.

This Aussie holiday mecca is finally atoning for its tourism sins

I first visited Port Douglas in the 1980s, before mega-resorts came and changed its character. Thankfully, tourism operators today have a different approach.

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