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The Machu Picchu Mistake: Is Seeing the Ruins Still Worth It?

The Machu Picchu Mistake: Is Seeing the Ruins Still Worth It?

September 27, 2018
by Ben Donaldson
Yarns

9:30pm, the night before my visit to Machu Picchu. I leap out of bed and race for the toilet. “Esta ocupado,” someone whispers. I’ve already…

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Here Is Good

Here Is Good

September 26, 2018
by Kate Dube
Yarns

I stare out the plane window at the twinkling lights in the darkness below. That’s Japan down there. Hitting the ground feels like victory: a…

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An Ode to Lolita Fashion: It's Not What You Think

An Ode to Lolita Fashion: It’s Not What You Think

September 25, 2018
by The Hobos
Features

When countries outside of Japan started to realise that Lolita fashion was a thing, I was still a kid, busy tottering around the house in…

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"What Goes Around Comes Around": On Accepting Kindness From Strangers

“What Goes Around Comes Around”: On Accepting Kindness From Strangers

September 21, 2018
by Eli Sooker
Yarns

Right now, I should be in absolute shock and wonderment. I’m sitting comfortably in the rental home of three elderly Japanese people, who have just…

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Fear of Missing Out: The Love Life of a Traveller

Fear of Missing Out: The Love Life of a Traveller

September 20, 2018
by The Hobos
Features

I will be bold enough to identify as an expert dater, although I will probably receive a stream of hate messages from exes upon publication….

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A Chat with Toby Paramor: Looking into the Heart of the Youth Travel Industry

A Chat with Toby Paramor: Looking into the Heart of the Youth Travel Industry

September 19, 2018
by Gemma Clarke
Interviews

The inner workings of Toby Paramor, founder of Stoke Travel and a dear friend to all at Global Hobo, is a mystery to many. Does he…

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Caught in the Crosshairs of My Unshaven Armpits

Caught in the Crosshairs of My Unshaven Armpits

September 18, 2018
by Maneesha Todd
Features

I watch my mum’s mouth drop open in disgust. “Oh my god.” We’re dining at a fancy restaurant and I’m dolled up to the nines,…

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Drunk on Homesickness

Drunk on Homesickness

September 17, 2018
by Alana Berghofer
Yarns

Seven months into a student exchange in Europe, and I’d only seen two Australians. One was guy who had little interest in reminiscing about our…

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The Sushi Predicament

The Sushi Predicament

September 14, 2018
by Imogen Sloss
Yarns

The plates circulated like a runway at fashion week, except instead of haute couture, the models were dressed in shades of raw fish, and instead…

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I Visited Seven Dentists in Europe on a Trip to the World Cup

I Visited Seven Dentists in Europe on a Trip to the World Cup

September 14, 2018
by Caitlin Cassidy
Yarns

It’s my second day on the streets of Moscow and the dentist I think I’m booked in to see doesn’t exist. I walk with my…

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Yes Burning Man Has Changed -- But It Still Fucking Rules

Yes Burning Man Has Changed — But It Still Fucking Rules

September 11, 2018
by Ezekiel MacNevin
Features

It doesn’t seem like the beautiful chaos that is Burning Man – blooming annually in a desert metropolis entrapped by shifting sandy hills and black…

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Finding the Darkness: Running From Addiction in Cambodia

Finding the Darkness: Running From Addiction in Cambodia

September 10, 2018
by Kingsley Bell
Cambodia Yarns, Yarns

Having finished high school, gotten my place at uni and taken a gap year, I was at a bit of a loose end. The thought…

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