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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Travel
As told to Katie Cunningham

Away with Mikey Robins: ‘My most stressful trip? I did two weeks in Afghanistan hosting music shows for the troops’

Mikey Robins
Australian media personality, comedian and writer Mikey Robins on travelling with a partner: ‘No trip is ever complete until you have “the argument”.’ Photograph: Anderson Castle/The Guardian

For the bulk of his early career, Mikey Robins sat safely behind a radio desk or on a TV set – often as a panellist on Good News Week or a presenter on Triple J.

But in the early 2000s comedy took him somewhere very different: Afghanistan. Robins did a two-week stint there during the war as an entertainer for the troops. Here the author, broadcaster and comedian tells us about that not-so-relaxing travel experience and shares memories from some less cortisol-spiking holidays.

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