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Unplugging on the Rocky Mountaineer
In a world where speed is everything, travelling has become a bit of a miracle. We hop on a plane, cross time zones and jet-lagged and tired, arrive in a new city. Our flights are over in a few hours...
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At home in Bo-Kaap
On March 2, 1653, after a long journey at sea, a slave called Abraham arrived as a stowaway on the shores of what is now Cape Town, South Africa. Abraham had escaped from his master in Batavia...
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Swept away by the Asian African Carnival
The street was a swirling sea of people. Bodies brushed against me in every direction- left, right and all around. I felt like a road cone stuck in heavy traffic, unable to move and uncertain of what...
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Kawah Putih in Bandung
I could smell the White Crater before I even reached it. Rotten eggs, I thought, as I went closer. No, scratch that. Make that thousands of rotten eggs. This particular brand of perfume wasn’t new to...
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Looking back on Bandung
I’m writing this nearly a month after returning from Indonesia. Most of the time it’s only after a media trip that I’m able to think about what actually happened. Media trips move very quickly. There...
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Malaysia to Thailand by car
Planes are strange things. They cut short your travel time and make travelling easy, and yet when you fly you lose out on what travelling feels like. You hop on a plane, get served meals on small trays...
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Club Med, Cherating Beach
A cool breeze was the only thing that was missing. I was lying down, propped up on my elbows with notebook and pen in hand, admiring the gorgeous blue sky and the shimmering South China Sea in front of...
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Bukit Kutu- just another hill
Step. Swish. Skid. How many times will I need to slip on this stupid hill? I asked myself angrily. It ended up being a game. I would count the number of times I skidded on the mud going down Bukit...
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Lakes of Southern Thailand
When I think of all the beautiful places in this world, they strike me as usually having either one or both of two things: bodies of water or lots of mountains. Out of Thailand’s eight lakes, two lie...
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Walking in England
I remember climbing high stone steps. I remember a large building and grey stone bricks with moss in the grooves and a kind old man asking if everything was all right when I stopped to catch my...
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France, early morning
In the French village of Bossey, not far from the Swiss border, the days pass by pretty slowly. So slowly that on a walk one morning, a slug I had chanced upon on a footpath one hour earlier had barely...
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Somewhere on the Cleveland Way
The sun was right above me; it was four in the afternoon. I wasn’t particularly late- sunset is around 7.30 this time of year in England- but when I set out that morning, I imagined that I would...
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Tips for the Cleveland Way
Last September, I walked part of the Cleveland Way, a 110-mile (177km) walk that runs between the market town of Helmsley on the edge of the North York Moors and Filey Brigg, which lies on the...
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Notes on the Travel Bloggers Meetup 2015
It was only when we were asked to take our seats at the makeshift stage at Calavera that I began asking what I had gotten myself into. That was when it occurred to me: Yikes, I actually have to speak....
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Two hours to 2016
I never thought I’d manage to squeeze this piece in before the end of 2015 but hey, here I am. These past few days have been the busiest I’ve ever been the entire year. I am not joking. I was meeting...
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Walking across New Zealand- the Coast to Coast Walkway
How often can you say you’ve walked across a country, from one coast to the other, in one day? Not too often I suspect, but in New Zealand, you can. You can do this in Auckland via the Coast to Coast...
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A Short Walk in the Alpujarras: From Capileira to Portugos
“Are we lost?” “I’m not sure. Hang on”. I walked a little farther and climbed up a slope, turned a short corner and went past a large tree with roots that clung to the side of the hill. What I saw...
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A short walk in the Alpujarras: Pórtugos to Bérchules
I looked up and saw an empty path in front of me. The trees that had stood nearby were no longer there- all I could see now were their silhouettes, covered in a thin low cloud. I had been so focused on...
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Seven ways to enjoy Central Taiwan
*The following post was written for the Taiwan Tourism Bureau. Some readers aren’t too fond of sponsored trips- if you’re one of them, go here to read a personal account of my recent (self-paid) walk...
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Listen
Spain, February 2016 The human mind works in strange ways. It tells us what to do and how to do it, but we don’t always understand why. When I set up this blog four years ago, I didn’t call it Five...
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