Ask Brian and the Leyland Brothers.

For those who aren’t Australian or over 35 probably won’t know who the Leyland Brothers are. Mike and Mal Leyland hosted a TV show from 1976 to 84 called ‘Ask the Leyland Brothers’ where they travelled all around Australia introducing us to fair-dinkum beauty bonza Aussie wildlife and landscapes. Mike passed away in 2009, but Mal is still ‘travelling around the countryside’, and next month Mal will be in Bright, Victoria talking about his adventures at the The Adventure Travel Film Festival. And so will I (except I won’t be talking about Mal’s adventures). In fact, during the weekend of festivities there will be lots of other great speakers and amazing films by true vagabonds who make my travels look like a nice weekend away at a nice holiday house. These hardy folks have done things like climbed Mt. Everest solo, paddled across Africa, cycled around the world, skied to the North Pole (and South Pole) and there is one couple who set off on an 18 month motorcycle trip and 400,000 kms and ten years later are still going. The festival takes place in the lovely town of Bright from Friday Feb 15th to Sunday the 17th. I’ll be doing an after dinner talk on Saturday night at the Bright Brewery (that’s if I’m still standing up of course). So, if you’d like a weekend full of great tales and films – and a few fine local brewed ales – come up (or down) and check it out. It’s worth it just to be able to say you asked one of the Leyland Brothers. Find the full details here. And hopefully Mal is a bit more exciting than when he made this back in 1969…