I’ve been developing and conducting walking tours for many years now. I love discovering and telling stories about people and places. I am available to undertake small group walking tours through Context Travel.
I’m also happy to tailor a special tour of Melbourne’s Chinatown area, perhaps for a family reunion or as part of celebrating Chinese New Year. I’m happy to tailor something which might suit your needs, including tasty treats.
If you are interested in Hong Kong and southern China’s Australian history join Dr Kate Bagnall and I on one of our Chinese Australian Hometown Heritage Tours.
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2020 The Balaclava ‘flatites’ and an historic bluestone stormwater drain
Lockdowns as part of the global Coronavirus pandemic have got many of us looking at our local neighbourhoods more closely and in new ways. Prior to Covid-19 restrictions the ‘scenic walk’ to my local cafe passed through a little neighbourhood park and across a bridge over an open stormwater drain. There’s a folding ladder (wisely…
2019 Chinese Australian Hometown Heritage Tour
What fun! I get to assist the delightful Dr Kate Bagnall run tours for Chinese Australian family historians to villages in southern China. After spending some time exploring Hong Kong’s connections to Australia’s Chinese communities we take a ferry across to southern China where we experience the diversity of southern Chinese history and culture. Together…
2019 Melbourne Context Travel tours
I am an expert guide for the Introduction to Melbourne: Gold Rush and Laneways and the Making the Journey: Immigration in Australia tours offered by Context Travel. Context specialise in small group and private tours for the intellectually curious, led by scholars and experts with in-depth scholarly knowledge of Melbourne. In January 2019 I developed a…
2008 Remembering Chinatown
A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Little Bourke Street, 1930s and 40s Based on oral history recordings, this self-guided audio tour uncovers the history of Melbourne’s Chinatown area as told by the Chinese Australians who lived, worked and grew up there. The audio tour is accompanied by a small booklet with maps, historical photographs and additional…
2018 Chinese Australian Hometown Heritage Tour
What fun! I get to assist the delightful Dr Kate Bagnall run tours for Chinese Australian family historians to villages in southern China. After spending some time exploring Hong Kong’s connections to Australia’s Chinese communities we take a ferry across to southern China where we experience the diversity of southern Chinese history and culture. Together…
2017 Chinese Australian Hometown Heritage Tour
What fun! I get to assist the delightful Dr Kate Bagnall run tours for Chinese Australian family historians to villages in southern China. After spending some time exploring Hong Kong’s connections to Australia’s Chinese communities we take a ferry across to southern China where we experience the diversity of southern Chinese history and culture. Together…
Sophie Couchman 