I’m not going to tell you what I saw when I took Ayahuasca. You may have heard tell of alien spirits, impossible geometry and a…
“Where are you from?” This is a typical way of breaking the ice among solo travellers. I get asked the question up to 10 times…
What do you think this symbol means? A thumb and forefinger arranged into a circle shape, with the middle, ring and pinky fingers sticking straight…
Oh! The things that we’ll see and do and learn while we’re traversing this great kingdom, writing our way around Spanish Iberia, immersing ourselves in…
Amongst the backpacking community, there’s always plenty of buzz surrounding the highly fantasised life that is weed trimming. And the first rule of Trim Club is…
It is 2pm on my last day in Portugal and I am still in bed, revelling in the hilarity of the 24 hours prior. I…
On a cold, not-so-stormy night in the small town of Bruges, Belgium, my companion and I gallivanted on the rugged, cobbled streets, adamantly attempting to…
Its skin didn’t feel the way I’d expected. It was prickly to the touch and rough, like cactus spears against my outstretched palm. I withdrew…
“Excuse me! Sir! What station is this?” the traveller yelled from the half-open carriage window. “Jaffna!” the stationmaster yelled back in a thick accent. “If…
In the dying days of the Japanese ski season, there was a definite lack of snow. When there is a lack of snow around these…
I ate nothing but onigiri and edamame for five days and nearly lost my mind A wildly distorted account of surviving on green beans, confronting…
Having spent the last four months in small-town New Zealand, I was itching to get back to Wellington, the Big(ish) Smoke, before setting off back…
