There are two luxury trains that bisect the Australian continent: the Indian Pacific, which crosses east-west between Sydney and Perth, and the Ghan, which goes north-south, between Darwin and Adelaide....

It’s a recurring phenomenon with me: a feeling of melancholy during the last few hours of any long distance train journey. It’s happening again as I finish a last drink...

I returned to Sydney yesterday for my last day in Australia and had been looking forward to seeing Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at Sydney’s spectacular Opera House. And “spectacular” doesn’t...

SYDNEY — It’s raining here this morning, so I’m taking it easy, getting oriented, and catching up after a 10.5 hour flight from Honolulu. As usual, Hawaiian Airlines did a...