Paul Hansford
Paul Hansford has been travel writing for 30 years, ever since handing in a school project on caravanning in the South of France as a seven year-old.
Having worked for the last 15 years predominantly as a travel and sports journalist, Paul has been able to combine the two to good effect, hanging out with such luminaries as David Beckham in Manchester, Harry Kewell in Istanbul and Dwight Yorke in the upstairs bar of Cargo, Sydney.
During his travels, he’s jumped from bridges in New Zealand, swam with crocs in NT, eaten goat’s testes in Argentina, got lost up a mountain in Raratonga and had a pleasant chat with Roger Federer in a toilet in Portland, Oregon.
Paul is a former editor of TNT Magazine Australia & New Zealand and Australian FourFourTwo magazine, and has also written for news.com.au/travel, Escape, The Sun Herald, The SMH, Limelight, GQ Australia and The Daily Mirror (UK).
You can follow him on twitter @paulhansford
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Why the big, chunky travel guide book is dead
There was always something exciting about buying a guidebook for a destination I was about to visit. Long bus rides…... Read more
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