Like prizing a half-full goonie from the embrace of a comatose friend, getting a hobo to part with their money can prove to be a…
My capsule hotel had bigger beds and cheaper rates than anything else in the area, but it didn’t have walls around its showers. So as…
During Brazil’s World Cup, the Colombian football team won the adoration of la copa with their little goal boogie that featured every game they played….
At 19 years old, my plucky, inexperienced self had two choices. Either I could return to uni after failing my first two semesters spectacularly (the…
Passport? Check. Camera equipment? Double check. Preparation for incoming intercultural tension? Whoops. Flying into Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta in April, I was met with a…
At the end of 2017, Australia celebrated a resounding yes vote for marriage equality. And as many of us were dusting off our hangovers, the…
I sit in a rustic wooden house adorned with ornaments from South Asia in the middle of the wilderness in Bulgaria. It is a chilly…
“Loved your profile:) I would like to offer you an allowance of 4000 per month. We would meet for a few hours each time, have…
Cover by Takahiro Taguchi Dotombori, 10 pm. The street was neon-drenched and the soundtrack was synthetic saccharine J-pop. I stepped into a bar. “Irashaimase!”, shouted…
Did you know that Spaniards have their own term of disendearment for us? Well they do, it’s guiri (pronounced giddy), and it basically means sunburnt foreigner…
I walk into a hostel in Italy and the common room is filled with people for the free dinner. I scan the room quickly. There…
I’m camping in Europe at the moment. Pitching my tent at rest stops, in the mountains and inconspicuously behind bushes on private land. I’m camping…
