“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…
“You are a woman. And you are from…” the first man said. “Norway,” I said to correct what I assumed to be his assumption of…
He bumbles aimlessly through the station, his sandy brown hair a beacon, head and shoulders above the tide of mostly black. He has no passport…
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…
It’s six females lined up like ducks along the brim of a rice-paddy. Squatting in a row with eyes screwed shut and milk-white bums bared…
“Whoa, hey, no!” I said. “Don’t eat the plastic! Nah, nah!” I managed to pry the deer’s jaws off the plastic, holding it up in…
Los Angeles is arguably one of the world’s most famous cities, and for good reason. It buzzes with energy: a manic mix of creativity and…
It was 2PM in Osaka, and I was staring a pair of socks to death from the window of a shop in Tsuruhashi. This was…
“Ma’am, would you mind stepping over here so that I can test your bag?” The only time I get called “ma’am” in my life is…
It was the 30th of December; 2018 would soon transition to 2019. I was at a hostel on Lombok, Indonesia – away from the crowds…
It’s 15 minutes into my debut of solo travelling and I’ve successfully sweated through a slimily thick layer of Men’s Sports 48-hour deodorant. I’m crouched…
Together with a flood of Japanese businessmen on their way home, I leave the train station and embark on a journey through Tokyo’s suburbia. It’s…
