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How Lyon’s Secrets Defeated the Nazis
The Cour des Loges Hotel Review As hotels go, the Cour des Loges didn’t need [...]
First Impressions of Burma / Myanmar
It was just before midnight. Our slow procession blinked past the checkpoint, wisps of hair [...]
There’s No Place Like…What is Home, Anyway?
What is home? This week, I was supposed to be travelling. But I was sick. [...]
Standing Alone on Slavery, Barbados
The problem, if you happened to be a slave owner, was that slaves just kept on dying. It was bad for business. Arguably, this also caused problems if you happened to be a slave, but…
Freedom and Slavery in Barbados – Part Two: It’s Not All Black and White
Part two about slavery in Barbados – and how it’s not what you might expect.
Zhang Huan Rising – Something’s Sweeping Through Toronto
I’m not sure which I saw first. The creeping hands…The lashing tail…Fervent, frantic, fevered wings dipping into water…Or something else entirely……
Freedom & Slavery in Barbados. It’s Not Black & White
The Club, Barbados My room has the perfect view. At dawn, sparkle spills across the [...]
Kakadu Park: Smoke, Art & Crocodiles
Kakadu. The sound is soft yet distinctive, like a bird call that rolls and unfolds across the willows and the reeds, the waters, the low and smoky air, to reach me on the scrunched and scorched soil. On the earth that is itself Kakadu.
The word…
Cuban Songs & Independence in Catalonia
The song sounded soulful but also a little sad. The man’s voice, with a tremor likely absent in his youth, addressed the crowd as though we were but one.
One person. A girl. A friend. A home. I couldn’t quite be sure, losing words as they…
The Beauty of Ignorance: When It’s Better Not to Know
Dusty, ink-filled pages bound together and towering upwards from the street. Shelves spilling knowledge like Waterloo Station churns out commuters at six o’clock before Saturday. Paperbacks, like people, squeezed…
Photos of the Maldives: Tears & Inspiration
The aeroplane bobbed on the water. The spray shimmered like tears on the window, giant baubles of longing just waiting for something to happen or someone to notice…
BriBriArtolution – An Experience Inside a Bri Bri Village in Costa Rica
We navigate upstream in dugout canoes. A man with an outboard motor is in the back…
Shark Conservation: Why Should We Save Jaws?
Mike Rutzen dives with Brad Pitt and occasionally with sharks, or perhaps…
Is Colombia Safe?
Before I open my eyes, I think I can smell the rain outside. It’s early, very early…
Barcelona and the Sands of Time
Today, I arrived in Barcelona. It’s not my first time but it has been a long time. And things have changed…
The Berlin Wall – The Unheard Story
The final instalment of the Iron Route Journey. East, West, Good, Bad, Win, Lose, Draw.
Another look at 1989.
The Ghosts of the Beautiful Game
You don’t need me to tell you that football’s popular around the world. But as Poland gears up for Euro 2012, here’s why I’m laying my ghosts to rest…
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