Travel Stories - Phil Brown, Writer, Journalist, Brisbane, Australia

Phil Brown - Travel Stories

Phil Brown has been writing travel for more than two decades. If you've read his book Travels With My Angst you'll know he's not the best traveller in the world but Phil has written on locations from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands where he once bagged a Munro. Look it up if you don't know what that means.

His favourite destination is always Hong Kong and his favourite hotel is always The Peninsula, that's a given, but he has ranged far and wide and here you can read about some of his journeys.

Travel Stories:

Buzzing or laid back? How to make the most of a Noosa stay - As dusk falls over Noosa, Bar Capri is buzzing. Fronting Hastings Street, this is the perfect spot for people-watching and a refreshing libation before dinner up a short flight of stairs to Cibaria Noosa, the new signature restaurant at Elysium Noosa Resort.
Story Phil Brown - The New Daily 18/04/2026
Delightful corner of London is 'bursting with bookish charm' - Wandering around Bloomsbury with a copy of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land in my hand - pretentious? Moi?
Story Phil Brown - The New Daily 21/03/2026
Curiosity in a tiny package: The joy of a small museum - Want an experience that is more living room than stadium? Then small museums are the way to go.
Story Phil Brown - The New Daily 17/01/2026
The Venice you don't see ... hidden courtyards, forgotten corners, secret gardens
Everyone has their own Venice. For Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos it was the perfect location recently for his $US50 million wedding.
Story Phil Brown - The New Daily 05/12/2025
Around the world in five fine hotels – and counting
I have a dream … a rather self-indulgent one. In it I am sitting in a room at The Peninsula Istanbul looking out across the Bosphorus.
Let’s call it an aspirational dream but also one within reach. Out of the 12 Peninsula hotels globally, we have stayed at five and I want to make Istanbul our sixth.
Story Phil Brown - The New Daily 15/11/2025
Acropolis … wow! First-time in Athens
Sitting at breakfast watching the morning light play across the Parthenon and other ruins atop the Acropolis, you tend to pinch yourself.
Phil Brown - The New Daily 23/8/2025
His island home: Searching for Leonard Cohen on Hydra
Looking for Leonard Cohen’s house on the Greek island of Hydra can be frustrating but, thankfully, as a consolation prize there is the Leonard Cohen memorial bench.
Story Phil Brown - Editor, InReview Queensland / InDaily, Inside Queensland - 06.08.2025
Full throttle luxury stay - The Peninsula’s billion-dollar London hotel - Qweekend, The Courier-Mail, September 13/14/2025
THE HEART OF KOWLOON - You won’t forget a stay at The Peninsula Hong Kong, where glamour and warmth accompany spectacular views. - Qweekend, The Courier-Mail, Feb 15-16/2020
Why Hong Kong is far more than just a stopover destination - Phil Brown - The New Daily - May 24, 2024
Why slow travel makes sense in a fast-paced modern world - Phil Brown - The New Daily - Mar 01, 2024
THE PERFECT SYDNEY HOTEL FOR CITY SLICKERS - Phil Brown - Writer - August 1, 2023
Discovering the spirit of the Outback - A train ride from Brisbane to Longreach is a gentle introduction to the wonders of the west - May 16, 2021
Out of the annals of Soviet history - Another Gentleman in Moscow stays at the stunning Metropol Hotel, setting of Amor Towles’s 2016 novel. - Qweekend, The Courier-Mail, April , 2019
Peninsula Tokyo - "The location of the hotel is terrific if you plan on some Ginza shopping and eating". - Qweekend, The Courier-Mail, August 26, 2018