These posts are about the volunteer experiences we cover during the trip.
Dec
24
It’s nice to go to a shop and buy a present for a friend or family member, have them open it and go “wow!” and all the rest, but what’s really nice is when that present benefits somebody else as well. In our true last minute style, we’ve got a few last minute ideas for …
Dec
08
As you may have noticed from the time between recent posts, we’ve been away on magazine assignments – on a train for six days in Australia without internet or mobile phone except when we passed through towns, and on remote islands where there was no or little internet or mobile phone coverage. We’re back in …
Jul
17
We never get too worried when it comes to packing for trips. We don’t use packing lists and we generally leave our packing until the night before. Our view is that if we forget something or don’t take enough clothes, we can always buy something when we get there. If we take too much, we …
Jun
05
Shades of saffron, mustard and tangerine stretched as far as our eyes could see – the robes of some 12,600 Buddhist monks from southern Thailand who travelled by bus to Bangkok to attend the mass alms giving to commemorate Visakha Bucha Day*. The sun may still have been low in the sky when we got …
Dec
15
How to live like a local in Istanbul tip #1: Take care of your neighbourhood cats We should have added ‘cat food’ to the Istanbul shopping list. Because if you’re planning on settling into the city for a while, the first thing you need to do is to adopt a neighbourhood cat or four and …
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