Fran Molloy

English-Italian surfer and photographer Lucia Griggi spends much of her life in the ocean, photographing surfers and other creatures of the sea. One of her favorite destinations is the Galapagos Islands where she has taken stunning images of…

Watching a Black-browed Albatross soar over the ocean is an unforgettable experience. Whether sweeping smoothly just above the sea’s surface or gliding high across the sky with ocean breezes beneath their long wings, these magnificent seabirds have…

We pay far more attention to positive online hotel reviews and ignore negative ones, a study has found. Holiday horror stories may make for hilarious dinner-party anecdotes down the track – but they are distressing at the time, and with unhappy…

Visitors to Australia are at more risk of drowning than locals are – and new research from Macquarie confirms that people born overseas often don’t spot the many hazards around Australia’s waterways. This summer’s heatwave has seen a rise in the…

Resistance genes and feral microbes are travelling vast distances through humans on aircraft and ballast water on ships criss-crossing the globe in unprecedented numbers. Just as we are changing the distribution of animals and plants around the…

For the millions of business travelers visiting Shanghai, their focus is less on getting a room with a view of the Pudong district’s futuristic skyline and more on ensuring easy access to that all–important early morning meeting. It’s a similar story…

Remote families all over Australia are making enormous sacrifices to get the best education for their kids, writes Fran Molloy. TARA AND Dan Locke love the wide-open spaces of Melinda Downs. “It’s pretty country. There’s red dirt, gnarly grey-green…

Qantas Travel Insider - travelinsider.qantas.com.au North Stradbroke Island has gained a cultural festival – and some very cool eco shacks – thanks to an Indigenous enterprise. I wrote this story for the Qantas in-flight magazine.

The mass warm-up at the start line of The Sun-Herald City2Surf, presented by Westpac on Sunday, August 9, is free and will leave you feeling hot, hot, hot. Retrosweat's Shannon Dooley is leading the limbering up and while runners don't have to dress…

A growing number of school-leavers are postponing university for a gap year, with many signing up to programs that combine international travel with volunteering in developing countries. Dr Stephen Wearing, associate professor in management at the…

New South Wales is filled with beautiful contrasting regions alive with travellers and trade, with something for everyone from iconic landscapes and thriving businesses, as Fran Molloy discovered. On average, international visitors to Australia spend…

Avoid a teen scene by discovering how generation next like to spend their time off, writes Fran Molloy. Family holidays can take a temperamental turn when you're trying to entertain teenagers, notorious for being even more difficult to amuse than the…

February 9, 2008 Well-seasoned travellers tell Fran Molloy of their experiences on the world's worst roads. Sometimes travel can be torture but one consolation is that holidays in hell are the ones that make the best dinner-party stories when you get…