21 (Alternative) Things You Should Do Before You're 21

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, a list article comes back into vogue, swimming into my social stream or pricking the little blog bubble I house myself in. Many such articles go viral. I get it. Lists are popular. Concise, bite-sized information in an age where our patience is finite – no one has the time […]

Bungee Jumping in Lake Taupo, New Zealand

ALTHOUGH I’M TERRIFIED of heights, I’ve got a big mouth. That mouth sometimes gets me into awkward spots. When I went to New Zealand to visit my brother in 2013, I promised friends and family that I would do a bungee jump, something big bro reminded me of daily while I was there.

Stargazing in Chile

When I backpacked around South America almost two years ago, other well travelled gringos would wax lyrical about the valleys and mountains of Chile, with an enviable landscape that had to be seen to be believed. I was always a little dubious at such claims given that those who usually said them were virgin backpackers […]

Swimming with Sharks

IF I HAD created a bucket list in my teens, swimming with sharks would have been near the top. Probably somewhere wedged between scoring the winning goal for Blackburn Rovers and meeting my childhood crush Gillian Anderson aka Dana Scully. The decade of my twenties brought with it a little less daring, and a little more caring. Especially when […]