Introducing Marc Llewellyn
Marc Llewellyn is an expert in tourism and travel in Australia. He is a co-founder of travelczars.com. He is also the managing editor of www.dayspaguide.com.au
Marc has authored the Frommers Guide to Australia for 10 years. He has also written several editions of Frommers Sydney, and several editions of Australia on US$40 a day, and the Dummies Guide to Australia.
Marc also specializes in South-East Asia, and he also covers other destinations worldwide. He prides himself on delivering accurate and clean copy to deadline.
He was the President of the Australian Society of Travel Writers (ASTW) from October 2005 to October 2008. He remains on the ASTW Committee. He is a regular contributor to newspaper travel sections and travel magazines in Australia and overseas.
Marc is the author of the travelogue Riders to the Midnight Sun. This told the story of his almost-heroic cycle trip through the former Soviet Union from Sevastopol in the Ukrainian Crimea to Murmansk in the Russian Arctic.
Finding Nino - a Seachange in Italy is his latest creation. It recounts a tale of life spent living on Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands, off northern Sicily. In October 2008 he won the prestigious ASTW Travel Book of the Year Award for Finding Nino. See www.findingnino.com.au
Past awards include the ASTW Travel Writer of the Year, and the Kendell Airlines Travel Writer of the Year.
Marc is a trained journalist, having worked for newspapers in the UK and as a news and features journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald. He holds a degree in Communication Studies and has a Master of Arts in Journalism.
Sample Work
The following articles are available here to read in full, so you can get a better idea of the authors style and substance...
Australia | NSW | Birdwatching | Outdoors | Wildlife & Nature | Island Escape
If you think being woken up at dawn by your local bird life is annoying then you might not want to stay on Montague Island in the breeding season.
Australia | NSW | Destinations | Family Friendly
The south coast of New South Wales hides two little gems between hills the colour of emeralds, as Marc Llewellyn reports.
Australia | NSW | Destinations
Where else can you hear about people climbing nude into the rotting carcass of a whale? They believed it would cure their arthritis. Or the tale of a man eaten by a sperm whale, who survived after the creature was harpooned and cut up? He emerged unconscious, with bleached skin, no hair and bad eyesight.
Vietnam | Asia | Off the Beaten Track | Island Escape
Sticking your face into a barrel full of rotting anchovies might not be the obvious way to get the most out of a holiday in the sun. But, if you visit the Vietnamese island of Phu Quoc, don’t turn your nose up at the opportunity. Fish sauce, or nuoc mam, is a daily staple for most Vietnamese, and the best – and most pungent - is said to come from Phu Quoc. This teardrop-shaped island, which is about the same size as Singapore, is a one-hour flight west of Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as it’s more popularly known. As far as tropical getaways go, it is relatively new on the tourist block – despite its white sand beaches, which easily out-class those on Bali. More...
Australia | South Australia | Indigenous Culture | Gardens | Food & Wine | Historical
If some awful catastrophe wiped out our civilisation and the shelves of your local supermarket has been stripped bare by looters, how on earth would you survive? Well, you’d better hope you had an Aboriginal guide like Haydyn Bromley by your side, and that you were living in a park in Adelaide.
