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 […]

Luging Control in Rotorua, New Zealand

For the uninitiated, Luge is a high speed thrill-seeker adventure sport, part toboggan, part go-kart. One of the world’s best sites is based in Rotorua, New Zealand atop a high mountain only accessible by skylift. The Skyline Rotorua Luge offer three tracks of varying difficulty and when my brother and I visited what is one […]

Learning Spanish in Guatemala

My motivation for learning Spanish was pretty straightforward: I was about to embark on a 9 month backpacking whistle-stop tour of Central and South America, and felt that my experience would be heightened if I could speak some of the lingo. I wanted to come back from my travels with a newly learnt, practical skill […]

Hello there Mr. Diarrhea Pill!

Last night as I began clearing the innards of my bloated backpack, streamlining the contents and finding what can be passed as clean for the last two days, I began getting a touch sentimental. I haven’t had the opportunity to really dig into my travel companion for months and as luck would have it, I […]

The Travel Bug Bites Back

I had travelled for seven months without so much as a common cold or mosquito bite, but it seems that as I near the finish line my luck is finally running out. I don’t easily get sick. Even once in the year is fairly uncommon, but the past few weeks my body feels like its […]