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“Little did I know that I had just arranged former Miss Australia.“

Miss Australia

The world is a wondrous place full of awesome creatures. This is one of the main reasons I love to travel because this planet is full of potential friends, you only need to find them. With a lot of amigo’s scattered over this globe funny coincidences happen sometimes. Our director Alessio Cuomo called me a couple of days before his Australia-adventure. For creating a poetry film about Dorothea Mackellar’s poem ‘My Country’ he really wanted a model to play a modern Dorothea: it would make the film really awesome he promised. Would I know someone to play that part? Immediately I thought of Caroline Pemberton. A great and awesome lady which I had met a couple of times already around the globe. A smart and fun dame, perfect fit. But I did not know her really well. I asked her anyway. It turned out that ‘My Country’ was her favorite poem. She said ‘yes!’ straight away. Little did I know that I had just arranged former Miss Australia. See her shine as a modern-day Dorothea in the video we’ve created: an Ode to the Journey.

We also got to have a little chat with explorer and legend of sustainable travel Mandip Singh Soin. Check out his wisdom.

While I am typing, a thousand bees are buzzing around my head. If you ever tried to type covered in a bee suit, you know the challenges I am dealing with. If not: it’s hard. But deadline is deadline even if you are already working on stories for the next issue about new friends: the Italian Lo Franco family, which runs Fattoria La Vialla. Something to look forward to.

Happy trails!

Marco Barneveld

Editor-in-chief