Not-so-random acts of kindness
I don’t have any bones to pick with public transport, but sometimes it can really screw you over.…
Anti-celebrity me
It's been pop culture season on my blog lately! First it was Married At First Sight, then it was Dev Patel, followed by Jeff Daniels.
This week, I'm talking celebrities - the red carpet sort, and also the everyday sort ... And I'm looking at why I get so shy and unfriendly around them.
Misunderstood: artists, do-gooders and missionaries
The wrong question? As soon as the question escaped my lips I knew that I had become That…
Getting down and thirty
For one glorious year, I was almost-no-longer-twentysomething – but 29 is still twentysomething. Alas, those days are behind…
10 Tips For More Meaningful Travel
What's the difference between a tourist and a traveller? And how can we have more meaningful travel experiences even while traveling for leisure?
Throughout my experiences of being a tourist, exchange student, international intern and expat, I have been reflecting constantly on these questions of identity, foreignness and the assumptions bound up in the practice and concept of travel.
Questions about relationships
Three thoughts chewed over with friends in the last month or so: Religion is a relationship: it’s not really about…
Meeting Moscow
Moscow was hot and muggy when we landed. She was temperamental – at times overcast, at times sunny.…