
It’s the beginning of European summer: time for the yearly ritual of 20-somethings living out their best lives through a month of backpacking. Last-minute flights…

Opening scene: Australia A beautiful young woman sits at her office cubicle longingly staring at a photo of the La Sagrada Familia on her computer…

In hindsight, there were probably smarter places I could have travelled to escape my addictive personality than Eastern Europe. Especially when a recovering junkie can…

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…

“Fuck this place and everything about it.” Although far from an epiphany, I can confidently say that at age 20, this was one of the…

Like an episode of David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals, any globetrotting you do will allow you to get up close and personal with a variety of…

Get there: Calle Monte Talai-Mendi Cost: €7.10 a night for a 2-person tent. A more comprehensive price list can be found here. Don’t let accommodation…

It ended in much the same way as it began: with a broken neck. If you had have asked me at 10 that morning, I…

Emile Derkheim, a sociologist from 1912, once described festivals as the “collective effervescence”. I’m pretty sure music festivals back then would have been slightly different…

We’ve all heard of it – Ibiza is renowned across the world for being the party capital of Europe. With its crystal blue waters, white…

I probably could have avoided having my colon surprise-probed by a stranger in a ramshackle room whilst in the company of a middle-aged woman who…