Just over a year ago I traveled deep into the desert to attend Burning Man for the first time. An experience that was so amazing it has taken me a very long time to get…
Jewish readers of this blog may be familiar with the concept of Jewish Geography, a “game” that Jews like to play when meeting other Jews for the first time. The object of which is to…
I’ve spent a lot of time in Los Angeles these past few years. It is a city like no other, packed with weird and wonderful people from all over the world. And, as ground zero…
I made my first visit to Mexico City a few weeks ago. It was an impromptu trip – we had a few days free, and an expiring travel voucher that had to be used. Plus…
I have only been to Canada once, about ten years ago, on what was meant to be a week-long work trip to Toronto. It was February on that visit and minus 20 degrees Celsius (that’s…
At the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where the Gulf meets the Caribbean, is Cancun. For decades this resort town has been especially popular with pasty Americans fleeing the northern winter, and drunken college kids…
The end of 2017 marks my sixth full year of writing this blog. When I first started this journey in January 2012, with a short post about how frustrating I found the queue at Heathrow’s…
From time to time someone from my company has to visit Cuba. This always raises a few eyebrows when I mention it. Not because Cuba is perceived as a militaristic bastion of raw Communism that…
In 1988, aged 16, I made my first solo trip overseas. Back then I traveled to Poland and Israel, for a month, to represent Australia in an international youth quiz. At the study camp that…
Over the years, I have created a long list of places I dream of visiting. Some of these I’ve managed to tick off. Like Iceland, the Mayan ruins of Guatemala, and Petra in Jordan. But…
