Passports have no prose, few illustrations and rarely any chronological order. Yet they can tell the greatest stories – tales of beauty and adventure, risks and rewards. In a digital age where almost everything we do is online, in the cloud or automated, a passport is nearly an anachronism – two dozen or more pages of […]
I got an unusual email the other day, and no, it wasn’t from a Nigerian prince seeking help to reclaim his rightful fortune or a medical company promising me a longer… life. A young man Carmen and I had met while staying at an Airbnb in Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam had gotten in touch to […]
Fun family holidays are the best – Carmen and I have travelled the world with our respective mobs, going to places like Croatia, Italy, the Carribbean, and of course plenty of quality time in our own backyard in Australia. But travelling with kids – well, that’s all ahead of us! When we were in Singapore […]
Carmen’s parents have a brilliant botanical garden where we had our wedding ceremony many years ago and where we’ve been spending many long summer evenings these days, drink in hand and eating food for the soul, under the brilliant sun. A great feature of the garden is the abundance of herbs that get clipped and […]
The sunlight of Western Australia is a bleached beam that strips colour from everything it touches; an Instagram filter in a steep, white cloudy sky. Meanwhile, out on the Indian Ocean, dark blue waves ride high above patches of green seaweed and yellow sand. Fat gulls ride the tide; not bothered about flying, they wait […]
