If you make your way down to almost the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, you can walk among the stumps of …

I was sitting in a ger in Mongolia when I put up my hand to go to Indonesia. My ulterior motive was …

I’ve seen two cities that look like they were comprehensively destroyed. I don’t mean just ruins,  but places where someone seems to …

This place is part of a chain called Huiwei. I first came across them elsewhere in Nanjing and for a couple of …

Erik von Daniken’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ came to my town when I was a kid. Alexandra, New Zealand was perhaps a …

Europe to Australasia is long-haul, and if you are not into heroics, it’s nice to break the journey somewhere. I wonder how …

I spotted this little take-away cake shop one evening after getting a cheese fix opposite. Pleasant woman in charge and bunch of …

Estonia was my first-ever experience of driving, by myself, on the right hand side of the road. I tried to keep it simple. All I …

I’ve been making eyes at this place for ages – the dumplings get cooked in an guaranteed eye-catching arrangement on a hot …

“I’ll have to show these to my colleague”. The security guard at Brisbane’s International Airport took the two objects from my bum-bag …