39. Hong Kong
39. Hong Kong The pulsating mass that is Victoria Harbour: Ferries and junks and boating allsorts heaving and jockeying for position. A constant throb of diesel amidst the rolling chop. Littered with...
View Article40. France (Paris, New Year’s Eve, 1989)
40. France (Paris, New Year’s Eve, 1989) Champs Elysee, twenty-four: the whole world before me. Uniting adrenalin of the pulsating crowd: 350,000 intimate strangers surging as one euphoric organism....
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OK, so this week, you have a choice of two ’50 words’ – sometimes I write more than one, because of course there are many indelible ‘moments’ when travelling, and this week I couldn’t decide what mood...
View Article42. South Africa
42. South Africa At Table Mountain, the cable car floats us serenely above the hunkering Flats of Capetown. The air is scorched by the sunset, but clear of the fetid undercurrent of bravado and fear...
View Article44. Tunisia
The train, along with the entire country, grinds to a halt. For three days. Goat innards, strung out to dry with the washing, mark the start of Eid in baking El Jem. Dusty streets are strangely silent...
View Article45. Wales
45. Wales My god it’s cold out here. Seeping, insidious, creeping cold. Stealing up from the ground underneath my tent, pitched in the lee of Offa’s Dyke – Idiot I am to have forgotten my camp mat in...
View Article46. Poland
46. Poland There’s an uneasy gloom in the late autumn afternoon. My solitary footsteps clatter on cement paths between rows of silent, brooding barracks. I throw the power switch, step inside and the...
View Article47. Singapore
47. SINGAPORE (Isetan Palace, 1st Sunday of the Month @ 610pm) They’re changing the guards at Isetan Palace, and somehow, Glen Miller is playing with Alice. Pomp and circumstance with a stirring of...
View Article48. Denmark
48. Denmark In Copenhagen, homely Rosenberg Castle sits modestly in the King’s Gardens. Surprising then, the magnificence of the three silver lions guarding the Thrones. Staring down tourists through...
View Article50. Australia
50. Australia There is an ease about being in Australia: It is Country knowing I belong regardless of my skin. And the inexplicable sense of rightness I have when I step off that plane from journeys...
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