One of the things I’ve always thought was quite unfair, considering how much I love travelling, is that I get incredibly bad motion sickness on…
You know those never-ending journeys when you were kids? The ones that went on and on and were only punctuated by the eternal question: “Are…
There’s nothing worse than being ill on the road. No matter how old you are when sickness strikes the first thing you want to do…
My attendance at a geisha tea ceremony wasn’t something I really planned. During my visit to Japan I serendipitously happened to be in Kyoto during…
It had already been a stressful day. We were in the south of Laos, sitting in the boiling heat at the side of the road…
When you’re travelling long-term it’s inevitable that you’re going to have a few bumps and scrapes, along the way. Plans don’t always run smoothly, things…
As a journalist I’m used to being the one asking the questions and staying out of the limelight. So it came as a bit of…
When the table first started to shake at my hostel in Huacachina it took a second for me to process what was going on. At…
I don’t know what is the most “it could only happen to me” moment of my visit to the village of Pan Kam in Burma….
When I signed up for a horse riding trip in Tupiza I’d had a romantic vision of being carried leisurely through countryside which wouldn’t look…