Oh my sweet Carolina

Oh my sweet Carolina

Our latest guest post is from Claire Hart, a fellow Brit and who has been recording her travels in North Carolina. She has kindly agreed to share some of her insights, and how her status as a European visitor offers a unique and interesting perspective. In his short story You can’t kill the Rooster, David [...]

#Travel Sentiments Catalog: Poignant items I travel with

#Travel Sentiments Catalog: Poignant items I travel with

Objects. Possessions. Things obtained and things kept. Every piece a shard of your memory, a reminder of musings and epiphanies. Some we cling onto more than others, for their usefulness or sentimental value. And a certain few we bring along during our travels. Here are a few items I keep close to me – closer [...]

Can I never go back to uni?

Can I never go back to uni?

Sitting in an Indian restaurant I casually picked up a copy of FHM and flicked through the pages. Bypassed the lingerie (I didn’t dwell on the pages, I swear) and I ended up gaping at the magazine feature: 75 most adventurous activities for men. Ranked somewhere in the sixties is this: to live at the [...]

Photogenic You: Efate, Vanuatu

Photogenic You: Efate, Vanuatu

The ni-Van children of Efate flaunting their catch of the day

A tenner to unleash my palate in Queenstown

A tenner to unleash my palate in Queenstown

I’ve always been a lunch person, especially when it comes down to eating out while travelling: it’s a cheaper option than munching the dinner menus, and what restaurants offer as their daily specials tend to be spectacles of specialities. Quite often these are themselves celebrations of local produce, cast into the cauldron to be whipped [...]

Parents: bane of the adventurous?

Parents: bane of the adventurous?

Thus was the title of my first ever published piece of travel writing. It was a fiery one, prior to my hitchhike to Morocco, somewhat scathing before I eventually toned it down to make it sound less like a bitter rant and more like a presentable case for debate. Ever since I penned Parents: the [...]

Photogenic You: Valletta, Malta

Photogenic You: Valletta, Malta

Soak up the Mediterranean breeze in the Maltese capital

Photogenic You: Foix, France

Photogenic You: Foix, France

The township of Foix, Southern France, gateway to Andorra and Spain

Photogenic You: Wailouta, Fiji

Photogenic You: Wailouta, Fiji

Your ultimate guide to going Fijian-bonkers with your hair

Photogenic You: Mt Cook, New Zealand

Photogenic You: Mt Cook, New Zealand

Highway open for speed – the road leading up to Mt Cook

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