Since Carmen and I started travelling full time I’ve taken to taking cold showers to give myself a healthy jolt each morning. In the beginning it was tough – I flinched away and had to force myself under and take the rush of hyperventilation and shivering. Now I just whack the tap to the blue […]
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The brochure told us explicitly not to ask questions about the massacre to the guides leading us around the site. It’s not what the place wanted to be remembered for, so they would prefer no one brought up the topic of that terrible day. We were at Port Arthur, a historical Australian site where 35 […]
It’s the ‘70s. You’ve just piled up your rickety boat with two months’ worth of supplies. Most of the food is in tins, as this is the only food that’ll keep for this long. You pull up the anchor and spend a rough few hours crashing across the waves of the Southern Ocean to a […]
