When someone says the words “Southeast Asia”, most people think of Thailand or Bali, maybe even Vietnam. If they’ve visited before, their subconscious has most likely narrowed the scope even further. Perhaps to Patong and Bangla Road, Bangkok and Khao San Road, Kuta, Seminyak, Gili Trawangan, Ubud, Hoi An or Halong Bay. These locations are by far the most popular and therefore the most famous, but talk to people who have been to them over multiple decades and you will begin t

My teenage years saw me spend the vast majority of my free time at a motel. A motel in the heart of my hometown, managed by my best...

When I first heard the Bloodhound gang sing “you and me baby aint nothin but mammal, so let’s do it like they do on the discovery...

As tourism warms the pine for the foreseeable future uncertainty surrounds when it will, if ever, return to the status quo we once knew. With borders closed and budget airlines collapsing it is likely that affordable travel will be a long way away. One of the few positives that have come from this virus is the earth appearing to benefit from human quarantine. Hopefully when we can take to the skies and lose ourselves in jungles, mountains and oceans again we will appreciate a

T-10 Days to Quarantine The sun rises hot and high above Argentina on the day I cross the border from Brazil. It’s early on the 9th of...

Unattainable. A word I try to eradicate from my vocabulary as often as possible, whether it be in terms of my personal, professional or...

For those who have read Bryce Courteney’s novel, Tommo & Hawk, you will be familiar with the mongrels of which I speak. The mongrels are...

There’s an image from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban that sees Harry run away from home in no particular direction and fall to...

It feels like the right time. I’ve held back from writing this one purely because it consumes so much of my heart to tell it right and it is important to me that I do it justice. The “Jasmine” story is the story that started the requests to share my stories online. Triggered by a question, a scent, a photograph or a dream, it is the story that gets the most reaction from those I tell. Before I begin, I want to tell you that Jasmine is in quotation marks because that is not h

India could easily be referred to as a concoction of colour, cows, cricket, cars, horns, religion and controlled chaos, but as much as...

Break ups are universally understood to be confusing, infuriating, depressing and often disorientating. Questions often go unanswered about why there was a change, how there was a change or even when the change occurred. Most people would have experienced the numbness this implosion of emotions creates at some point in their life. The first step of an unexpected breakup begins before the penny even drops. With no knowledge of the pending doom that awaits, the relationship is

Chaos theory is said to be the science of surprises and the unpredictable. It references the things that occur that are impossible to...

The turn of a key, that’s all it can take to make a decision. Whether it be to go to the supermarket or not, to visit that girl or not,...