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Vivienne Stanton is a Sydney-based freelance journalist and writer. She specialises in writing about travel and other cultures.

She has contributed articles to National Geographic Traveler and Esquire in Latin America, Marie Claire Australia, Australian Gourmet Traveler, Ninemsn, Concierge.com, Australian Travel + LeisureTime Out Guide to Mexico City, The West Australian Newspaper’s Weekend MagazineInside Mexico and Life & Style. She  has also published short fiction in HEAT, an Australian literary magazine.

She is also an amateur photographer. Unless otherwise stated, all photos on this site were taken by her. 

 

Feature Stories

WHITE AUSTRALIA

HOPE Street, Perth, is a quiet lane in the back streets behind the Western Australian capital’s nightlife district: a compact, three-square-kilometre rectangle of Asian restaurants…

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CARTEGANA

The bar was small and empty, the beer cool and delicious, the night air sweet and sticky with the scent of the tropics, and the Caribbean. The thief’s weapon was modern—not a knife, but a mobile ph…

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AUTHENTIC HAVANA 

In La Habana Vieja, a blind man sings songs in a beautiful voice outside the Bodegita del Medio, Hemingway’s old haunt, while tourists pose with Che Gueverra berets and fat cigars…

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