When choices arise...

Today is the last day of Ramadan. As Jess and I rode our bikes from her home in West Heidelberg to the nearby organic food markets, we pass...

Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv looks like any European airport, except for the general atmosphere of suspicion and higher-than-normal secur...

  "No mode of transportation inspires more detailed observation than the railway train" - Paul Theroux There were a few reas...

8 seater plane to Marau Sound, Guady Getting to most of the community learning centres that we work with in Solomon Islands is no easy ...

Honiara is not the worst place in the world to be. But it can be tough. In the course of one day I managed to get groped in the middle of to...

Having spent the past few days reading Bill Bryson’s account of his travels in Australia, and finding hilarity in the details of everyday li...

When the news broke that Michael Jackson was dead, I was eating breakfast at a small town café in the middle of nowhere. Or, perhaps I sho u...

Christmas cards might seem like an old-fashioned habit in this electronic age, but for me they are a wonderful reminder of my ecclectic mix ...

Now that we're based in Sydney and there aren't really any overseas adventures planned, we have had to resort to travelling vicariou...

Nepal has had such a profound effect on me. I don't know if it was the early morning yoga, the meditative circling around the stupa, the...

As Kofi Annan attempts to gain a peace agreement that will satisfy Kenya's government and "opposition", many ordinary people ...

One daily occurance that I still find amusing is when the matatu fills up to the brim and some people are forced to sit in the isle, somehow...

Just getting around Kenya has been a real adventure and we've enjoyed every minute. Nothing is quite what you expect. We decided to spen...

After weeks of "slumming it" in cheap hotels, Pete and I decided to spend the day at the swimming pool of a posh hotel in order to...

After finishing up my time at QUNO, I have spent the past two weeks making my way down the coast of Italy to Rome. The beaches definately g...

It was my idea to spend my final week of leave working on an organic farm in the Loire Valley in France, but in the end it was Pete who real...

My siblings were full of excitement as they ran to greet me at our Paris apartment. The plan was to meet in belle Paris on the morning of th...

The first thing I noticed when I stepped out of the airport at Kigali was the green-ness of Rwanda's rainy season. I was told that the p...

I think it's important, when you're about to be a traveller somewhere else, to practice in your home town. So Pete and I have been d...

I am staying at the Gandhi-King-Mandela Farm (also known as the Garden of Peace) which is an intentional community in rural India. The found...