Powered by 12Go Asia system Hanoi, 8th December 2019 After my first week in Vietnam had flurried past in a whirl of new sights, sounds, tastes and colours, I found myself on a sunny Sunday morning rattling along on the bus to Hanoi. I was accompanied by Yasmin, one of the other teachers at Sun …
Powered by 12Go Asia system London, 29th November 2019 London. A hulking mass of concrete and steel seeping out from the banks of the Thames. A living organism breathing in and out scores of people indifferently. The cold air cut deep into my lungs that bright day. It was the beginning of winter. It was …
I remember the day we found out what happened to that kid and the dog who went missing on the coast by Godrevy. By midnight last night the frantic parents had knocked on almost every door in the area. And although the police were reluctant to get too involved until the kid hadn’t been seen …
She was known by the locals as Old Lady Jane. The others, the ones who came and went, rolling in annually with the same reliability as the incoming tide, would barely even notice her existence. They were focussed on other things, on the sun, the sea, the happy memories they were busily crafting. She used …
01/06/2019 The sun was wary in entering the room through the window, held back by the looming peaks surrounding the small refuge. When it finally did wake me, I was sluggish in packing up my things and getting ready to leave. My aim for the day was clear: to climb the 2921m Pic Carlit and …
31/05/2019 Having awoken to the sound of a piercing cacophony of birdsong with its discordant harmony of traffic on the nearby road, I began to slowly pack up my things and was soon on the road. I had camped the previous night in the middle of farmland and was lucky to find a small wooded …
