When you are hitchhiking, getting picked up has a lot to do with getting people to like you, but when they are whizzing past at 80 kph you don’t get much time to establish trust. I’ve been hitchhiking around the planet for years, with the Australian Flag on my backpack. Standing beside the road,…
It’s Loi Krathong all over Thailand right now. Central to the festival ritual is the making and floating of Krathong: little floral rafts that you place into the river or sea. Focus Gallery Cafe , here in Chiang Mai, ran a Krathong making workshop yesterday. Anna and I went along and made us a couple…
She twists and struggles, but he pulls her hair several times before releasing it and steers her into the foyer of the hotel…
“…we will fight to save this place. The army came during the curfew time and wanted us to close. We told them no way…” The Joy Bar, the last of Krabi’s once numerous live folk bars, is going to be forced to close it’s doors, on the 16th of this month, June 2014. This day…
…Europe is intense. I like the cheese. I like the noisy little cars. I like the pastry, the architecture, the museums, the people, the fashion, the weather, the diversity, the pashing (it’s an Aussie word for what Parisians do), the colours, the countryside… I’m not so keen on the dog shit situation… My time in…
Guido picks us up in the Aosta Valley, in far north-west Italy. Guido is 33, tall, lean and has a winning smile. He is the sheriff of his small village. The name of Guido’s village is Brusson, which means “gold mine”, but all the gold ran out centuries ago. As we wind along the…
We’re walking down the street in Caen, past the statue of Louis XIV proclaiming himself to be an “emporer of Rome”, when suddenly there is a wild blaring of car horns, and thumping dance music! It’s another wedding party off to the chapel! All the girls hang out the windows and sunroofs of the vehicles and…
Part of the excitement of travelling is sharing culture. You get to learn about another world, and you also sometimes get to share some of your own culture with the people you meet overseas. I got a ride one morning from a pair of very young acne crusted lads who were driving a van…
I feel like I am about to vomit. I feel faint, feel like my body is getting smaller, like I am leaving myself and spiraling down…