Get There: Plaça Reial nº 17, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The hostel is in the centre of the city, just off the famous street La Ramblas…
I met a guy in a cowboy hat on the bus home one night. He drunkenly slurred something about a peak party the next day,…
My first solo voyage came at the age of 16, when I decided to set off on a five-month exchange to France. To save for…
It’s all very well and good to be a hobo by choice, scavenging still-fresh bread from supermarket dumpsters in order to save money for what…
Get There: Banyan Tree Hotel, 21/100 South Sathon Road, Sathon. You are best off taking a taxi there – it’s a fancy place and they didn’t…
It happens a lot when you’re trotting the globe. Someone will say “hello” to you in a vaguely foreign accent, and all of a sudden…
Like most Sundays, I wake tasting stale whiskey and drooling on myself, naked. I wake up cotton-mouthed in an unfamiliar place, scanning the room for…
Travel has somehow become a cultural hurdle that must be jumped in a particular way, and if one does not adhere to that particularity, their…
Like many hobos, I have an insatiable appetite for adventure, an unquenchable thirst for new experiences, a wanderlust that eats at me, consumes me. Hand…
Does a bird shit in the street? The answer is no – not in Buenos Aires, anyway. If you are noticeably foreign (I have white-blonde…
Get There: 285 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy Cost: $1 per pintxo Sunday night – Thursday lunch, $2 per pintxo If you’re too stingy to pay for…
Get There: Suss their website for the class venue – http://melbourne.lanewaylearning.com/ Cost: $12 As a hobo, you will need to learn a variety of skills…
