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 […]
Night is falling over the rice paddies and the suburban houses that line their wind rushed edges. The cool of the evening tugs at my heels as they swirl round and round, propelling me forward on a bike from the 1920s that gives such a smooth ride it’s like flying. I’m following a gentle Thai […]
The campsite hums with snoring and the rustling of sleeping bags. My footsteps crunch across the gravel, loud as burglar alarms, and when I reach the empty blacktop I’m quiet as a thief. The grey and white land in front of me is blank, hushed by the stillness that signals the coming of a new […]
Last week I had the privilege of spending two days in a writing workshop with the legendary travel writer Don George. It was a wonderful experience and he taught me a lot. Here’s a travel sketch I wrote in the class after we went out to explore the local Thai market. The hectic mess of the Thai market lay […]
Hanoi is relentless. The traffic drives me mad, overloading my system with so many close calls as I cross the street that I’m numb to danger, numb to noise. Honking horns, grinding circular saws, rushing crowds, chaos funnelled hither and thither beneath the green canopies shading the old town’s grimy boulevards. The static of the […]
