Beneath the arches, a cloaked man walks through the shadows, his head bent, his hands supporting an open book. I can hear my footsteps, distorted through the darkness by the basement’s wet gravel, a hesitant chord to the beat of dripping water.

As you may know, I was in the area of Sendai shortly before the earthquake and as you surely know by now, Sendai and a much larger area of Japan suffered terrible damage as a tsunami swept inland. Right now, Japan is battling to recover, with over 7000 people dead and 11 000 missing. Millions have been left without shelter, electricity or water.

“Mental salvation,” Jean-Marc tells me when I ask why he left his banking job to run a charity full time. He talks about his dismay at the practices in the City in the run up to the crisis. Then he tells me about his son…

To those of you new to this blog, I grew up in Britain. As well as learning how to make weak coffee, dance around a May Pole and stand outside in the pouring rain at barbecues, weddings and trips to the beach, a modern British upbringing means taking part in Comic Relief…

As part of this year’s incredible Passports with Purpose campaign, Inside the Travel Lab has teamed up with the Four Seasons Hotel in Seattle to offer you the chance to win a fantastic weekend away.

Passports with Purposeis a fundraising initiative that invites travel bloggers from around the world to get together online to make the world a better place (I know it sounds cheesy, but…

s it turned out, this was Petrol Art, a creative enterprise distilled from the desire to convert environmental damage into something more worthwhile.

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..