Powered by 12Go Asia system Chu, 05:00, Sunday 15th December 2019 After a sorrowful goodbye to Maika and Yasmin who were leaving Chu later the same day, I picked out my clothes and laced up my walking boots. I hadn’t slept a wink. My backpack sat waiting for me, bulging with spare clothes and snacks …
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 …
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 …
30/05/2019 After a stressful and early morning involving cancelled busses, angry passengers and a general breakdown in bureaucracy, I finally arrived at London Stansted airport and found myself queueing at the gate to board. Not that I needed convincing, but the flight showed me how Ryanair is really quite an awful airline. Poor seats, the …
