“I used my backpack to shield a young girl from the police’s rubber bullets, because she was about to get hit and for sure she…
“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…
You know when you’re a kid and someone says to you, “I bet I can beat you to that tree!” so you break into a…
I am part Indonesian, part German; in other words, I am Eurasian. I grew up in Singapore, living there for most of my life. I…
It is so cold in Istanbul that it cramps my spine. Hiding my face from the cutting air, I see an old lady chopping painted…
The pollution is so dense; I can actually see it lingering in the air. Droplets of sweat ooze from my pores as I am struck…
