Karl Quinn
Senior Writer, Culture
Karl Quinn is a senior culture writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via X, Facebook or email.
It may be your idea of hell, but I loved this famous European hike
The Camino del Norte is first and foremost a religious pilgrimage and, if done in full, starts near the French border and ends about 830 kilometres later.
- Karl Quinn
For 37 years I’ve regretted not visiting this town. I finally made it
Ever since a first adventure to Spain in the 1980s, I regretted missing a visit to the spectacular Spanish town of Ronda. It turns out getting there isn’t easy.
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- Opinion
- Air travel
I felt smug about my airfare, until I realised it was the wrong airline
The time was almost identical, the price likewise, the flying time ditto. But why am I flying home via Delhi?
- Karl Quinn
Disney cruise ship heading to Australia for the first time
Disney fans will be able to immerse themselves in all things Mouse when the entertainment giant brings one of its cruise liners to Australia for the first time next year.
- Karl Quinn
Omicron and international travel: In the UK for Christmas, I caught COVID - and now I can't come home
Flying to England for Christmas to see his ageing parents was always going to be a risk - but for Karl Quinn, not doing so was even riskier.
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Hiking the Cathedral Range in the age of coronavirus: It's fnard, but we will make it
Usually a hike is just a hike. But on the last weekend before Australia went into shutdown, it somehow seemed so much more.
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New Zealand, Routeburn Track: One of the world's most magnificent hikes
In the before shots, trampers are walking on well-marked paths; in the after shots, they're wading in waist-deep water.
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Proud Murray keeps on turning: Paddle steamer journey is a trip back in time
Moama to Barmah and back takes an hour by car, but six days on the river, which was plenty of time for Karl Quinn and his fellow crewmates to imagine themselves in a different era.
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A great challenge, or just a great sellout?
Screenwriter insists his work on a tourism campaign makes artistic sense.
- Karl Quinn