A banner drops down, interrupting my unconscious scrolling. Message from Liv.* I immediately swipe up and get rid of the notification. I haven’t seen Liv…
We stock our backpacks with freshly made dumplings from a local market, bottles of beer, a portable speaker and a couple of cheeky tins of…
My father is a man of colour; an Indonesian with a deep complexion, almond eyes and a smile that, teamed with his bellowed laugh, can…
For years, I have been told that my way of travelling is wrong. It’s a habit that I was once ashamed of, but now, unabashedly…
I trudged up the stairs to my house, listless and exhausted after nine hours in my cubicle. After a half-hearted hello to my father sitting…
I was leaning against a boulder on Uluwatu beach, watching disco lights and reggae music dance across hanging vegetation and out over the waves. Suddenly…
“300,000 rupiah,” the taxi driver said, claiming that the ride home would be twice as much as what it cost to get there. Scooters whizzed…
Her followers call her ‘The Mother’: a French woman who began forging her vision of a Utopian society in Tamil Nadu, one of India’s southernmost…
It was September and Europe was getting cold, so we found ourselves a quaint fishing village on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. With our hostel situated right…
We spend weeks counting down the days until the boarding call. Crossing off the dates on the calendar, edging closer and closer to the aircraft’s…
Have you ever felt like you knew a place without having been there? Ever come across a familiar scene in a foreign land that forced…
In a dimly-lit basement under the streets of Amsterdam, I sat, surrounded by people I barely knew, watching a woman pull an impossibly long string…
