I’m always inadvertently coming across random things from my backpacking trip. I have Peruvian currency in the glove-box of my car. A green tea sachet given to me by a friend in California which I have yet to drink and is unofficially stored in my purse. A TAP card for the Los Angeles subway nestled […]
A group of journos were sitting in the pub when Darren Hayes’ embarrassing nineties song came on the music video channel. I knew I loved you before I met you. Oh how sad and cliche we all laughed. Is it even possible to love someone before you meet them? And then I remembered New York […]
My best friend Kate used to talk about moving to England for a few years and doing some travel before she settled down and got married. The phrase bandied about between us a lot was, “Getting it out of our system.” You know the one. The obligatory round the world trip that we Kiwis and […]
London is a business suit. A shiny leather shoe. A body full of tattoos and a plum of smoke. A row of Victorian houses and a council estate. An orderly queue followed by rioting yobs. A flash of red and black. A sour margarita and a warm mince pasty. Maddening love and silent heartbreak. […]
I hadn’t realised how used to traveling solo I was until Mark and I got to Iguazu Falls in Argentina. I queued for a ticket and only bought one. Another time, leaving Vienna with a group of, oh I don’t know, six girls. I stopped to buy a magazine and subsequently got separated from the […]
I’m afraid of flying. There. I said it. People who know me well know this truth about myself. Or rather, they’ve accompanied me on a flight where I’ve broken their fingers and the cat was out of the bag. I can almost pin point the actual flight where my fear started. This is actually quite […]
I really hate a dramatic headline but this one really kind of sums up a post where I don’t sugar coat anything. Despite the fact it kind of implies that I’ve had a lot of terrible travel experiences this truly isn’t the case. In fact, I really had to scratch my noggin to come up […]
