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Petrol Art – Bringing Beauty From the Sludge
Aug 10, 2010
s it turned out, this was Petrol Art, a creative enterprise distilled from the desire to convert environmental damage into something more worthwhile.
Category: Global
Unusual Journeys: Racing Around with Formula One
Aug 01, 2010
Words from one of Formula One’s secret masterminds, Italian-born Race Engineer Gianluca Pisanello from Lotus Racing…
Clean Water for Developing Nations = A Free Travel Book For You!
May 20, 2010
Download a free book on travel (featuring yours truly!) and $1 goes to help get clean water for developing countries…
Unusual Journeys: Dancing Past Milosevic
May 14, 2010
For the very first “Unusual Journeys” interview, I’m thrilled to catch up with talented dancer and choreographer Laila Diallo. Through her work, she’s travelled across the world, worked with Kevin Spacey and side-stepped Milosevic…
World Travel With World Bloggers
May 11, 2010
Travel the world from the comfort of a blog, that’s (kind of) the promise from…
Entering Auschwitz
Mar 31, 2010
Entry to Auschwitz feels like a macabre blend between a Saturday afternoon football crush, a communist toilet block and the road to hell itself…
A Cold and Lonely Path: Into Auschwitz
Mar 25, 2010
I’m running through Kraków’s bus station, spinning around to see coaches lined up behind me and smaller trams rattling through the concrete space below. My eyes jump around, searching for D8, for…
Broken Chair
Mar 20, 2010
The Broken Chair jolts out of the dreary Place des Nations in Geneva. Surrounded by steady traffic and standing opposite the European UN Headquarters, I found its size, odd rust-green colour and geometrical..
Inside the Travel Lab’s New Year Resolutions
Feb 15, 2010
The astute among you will have noticed that it is not January 1st, so what am I doing making New Year’s Resolutions? It’s the Chinese New Year, of course.*
Suddenly Gone
Feb 12, 2010
Death isn’t something that most of us like to think about, particularly when we’re young. Sadly, that doesn’t make any difference. I’m not here to frighten you because there are things that you can do…
One Thousand Ways to Say Hello
Feb 10, 2010
Geneva is a city with an international reputation and Place du Molard clearly wants people to feel at home. Snuggled among the charcoal cobbles, glowing squares say hello in languages from around the world. At least I assume that’s what they mean. I couldn’t translate them all…
Ghosts Underground
Feb 02, 2010
The Museum of the International Red Cross and Crescent, Geneva They stand together. Arms shackled, faces covered, feet bare, their posture somehow shrieking both defiance and despair. They huddle in the corner and a wide space surrounds them. Reflective glass panels form the walls in this courtyard, while white sail sheets stretch over their heads, [...]
Finding Freedom
Dec 07, 2009
On Saturday I discovered one of my favourite things in a city – a free art gallery. Better yet, a gallery that also hosts dance performances, and that’s where I caught up with Claire Cunningham and José Agudo in their joint project, 4m2.
Hiroshima Today
Aug 06, 2009
As the sleek shinkansen train slid into Hiroshima station, I admit I felt nervous. Yet for all the studies and reports, I was still unprepared for what I saw.
My Travel Map
Mar 28, 2009
View Freelance writer – Abigail King – Travel Map in a larger map A glimpse at my journeys around the world.
Turtle Safaris – Saltwater & Scepticism
Mar 23, 2009
These days, I take promises of viewing exotic wildlife with more than a pinch of saltwater. Particularly endangered species. To find pandas I had to travel for days. To glimpse a tiger, I shivered morning and night under a blanket of frost.
But to see turtles in Barbados? I only needed to…
TRAVEL BOOK REVIEWS
Jan 14, 2009
Clearly there are guide books for fast facts and practicalities, and entire bookshops devoted to non-fiction travel writing.
However, I’ve always had a soft spot for a..
