Here at Global Hobo, Japan has been one of our favourite places in the universe for quite some time. It’s the steamy solidarity of soaking…
Enjoy the Journey – When You Get There, You May Not Be Welcome From Corfu to Korcula, from Montenegro to Rome, from Tallinn and Helsinki…
Ah, Venice – La Serenissma. La Dominante. The City of Bridges, of Masks, and Canals. The Grande Dame of the Adriatic. But has La Serenisima…
It was a Thursday and it was late. What’s worse is that it was cold, and we were hungry. At this point, we had spent…
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…
9:30pm, the night before my visit to Machu Picchu. I leap out of bed and race for the toilet. “Esta ocupado,” someone whispers. I’ve already…
“Fuck Air BnB”. “Tourists go home”. Confronting messages sprayed across crumbling brick walls on the outskirts of Venice put a pit of guilt in my…
New hostel. You’re checked in and journeying to the common area. Loud voices carry down the hall. Americans, probably, you think. You’re proud to disassociate…
A two-hour scooter ride through wet rice paddies and shadowy rainforest, and I was descending into the valley of Ubud. Overwhelmed by the busy streets…
“If you survived 1993, nothing else matters. There is no such thing as problems.” – Faruk Osmanovic, Sarajevo siege survivor Steeped in a rich valley…
“Today I’m going to talk a lot about the US Army,” says the guide in his thick Vietnamese accent, “I want you to remember that…
Picture this: beneath an arch of blue sky, where tendrils of fuchsia bougainvillea frame a distant Mount Agung, an afternoon is passed in the company…
