A visit to Lake Baikal and Olkhon Island
‘Have intention, sacred will travel.’ – S. Kelley Harrell (from Life Betwixt: Essays on Allies in the Everyday and Shamanism Among). Mythical Lake Baikal… Read more
Countries around the world: Reasons to return
‘The land is always there… it is you who has to return.’ – Munia Khan. I ran into a woman from the Netherlands whilst… Read more
Five sunsets, and the stories that accompany them
“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.’ – Pamela Hansford Johnson. Five of the most memorable sunsets… Read more
On Trust and Gut Instinct
‘Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut instinct.’ – Ann Cotton. There have been many moments whilst I’ve been travelling when I’ve… Read more
What Travel Has Taught Me
‘Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the… Read more
The Long Journey Home: Exploring Architecture
‘The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilisation.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright. A… Read more
The Long Journey Home: All The Trains
‘Faster than fairies, faster than witches, bridges and houses, hedges and ditches…’ – an excerpt from Robert Lewis Stevenson’s poem ‘From a Railway Carriage’…. Read more
The Long Journey Home: Five Memorable Faces
‘We don’t meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path for a reason.’ – Unknown. Memorable Faces When travelling, it is… Read more
The Long Journey Home: Snapshots So Far
‘A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.’ – Eudora Welty. Feeling Guilty If there is one thing I have discovered while I’ve… Read more
The Long Journey Home: Visa Applications
‘It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.’ – John Wooden. The Trans-Siberian: An Idea One sunny day in June… Read more