It’s strange. You arrive to a new land, there are people to greet you. At first you don’t understand; in fact, you don’t understand for…
It’s quiet outside, a little too quiet. There are meant to be 17 other people here but I haven’t seen any signs of life. Tired,…
A screech of, “GET ME IN THAT FUCKEN POOL!” rattles the oven air. Through the haze of red wine fumes baking off my body and…
“You’d be more attractive if you smoked and were less of a feminist,” he slurs, sloppily, arm slung like a dead weight over my shoulder…
“Fuck it,” I said as I clicked book. The decision was final. I was going on an adventure. When travelling, especially as a young person,…
“So you attracted your own attacker by manifestin’ him through your nightmares…” The round, well-meaning woman sits nodding to herself comfortably in her chair. White…
It was approaching midnight on a cold Tuesday. My boyfriend and I were drunkenly trawling the backstreets of Shibuya, leading us to the street of…
Because I cannot bear the thought of spending New Year’s alone, I get in a car with a friend and two others I’ve never met…
Day 1 Bleary-eyed and hungover from a wild night in Talinn, Estonia, the group of 30 Topdeckers roll into Saint Petersburg, straight to the front…
I’m halfway through my month-long escape in Bali and my weeks have begun forming a pattern. Monday morning, wake up early, yoga, green tea. Tuesday…
“Holy crap!” Mum shouts as a bike skyrockets past her, narrowly missing her little feet. “The bikes really own the roads and the bloody pavements…
Today I’m walking over the bridge to go to the supermarket, taking a break from work. Listening to music on my phone, the Killers playing…
