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28 Jul 2021
This week, we caught up with freelance travel writer and author of
Heading South: Far North Queensland to Western Australia by Rail, Tim Richards, to find out how he’s been faring amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
What are you reading?
Lotharingia, a centuries-long history of the countries wedged between France and Germany. It’s a detailed and occasionally very funny mix of history and travel memoir by British author Simon Winder.
What are you watching?
I’ve just finished watching
Solos on Amazon Prime, a fascinating series of mostly one-actor dramas set in the future. One episode is about a woman who refuses to leave her safe house 20 years after a pandemic, so it’s very relevant.
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Tim Richards love of train journeys came about the same way that a Hemingway character goes bankrupt, gradually, then suddenly .
Richards has been a travel writer for more than 17 years, but his love affair with trains really only developed in the past decade. He found he became progressively delighted by the experience before falling head over heels with life on the rails. Flashing back to my childhood though, I remember the last of Western Australia s steam trains hauling freight past our farm when I was a few years old. Perhaps a seed was planted then, Richards says.
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