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Going around (some of) the world

Going around (some of) the world

In exactly four weeks’ time I’ll be setting off on an around-some-of-the-world trip. People often ask me if I get less enthused about travel because I do a lot of it for my job, but what’s actually happened is that the more I’ve travelled the...
AfrikaBurn 2014: The Trickster

AfrikaBurn 2014: The Trickster

This year was my third AfrikaBurn and as always, I feel like it was a psychedelic dream that will take me weeks to process. I had too many crazy, beautiful experiences and encounters to put into words in just one blog (I feel like I could write a book about my five...
Saving Costa Rica’s sea turtles

Saving Costa Rica’s sea turtles

It was midnight on a hot, sticky Costa Rican beach and I was so exhausted from jet lag that I had started hallucinating dark shapes in the ocean. We’d been walking on the starlit beach for a few hours following our enthusiastic guide, Kloyd Taylor, whose...
Unplugging Costa Rica

Unplugging Costa Rica

It was like being inside a “Sounds of the Rainforest” CD. Standing on a suspension bridge high above a Costa Rican cloud forest, with the sound of a thousand tweeting birds, gentle humming of insects and a breeze rustling couch-sized tree leaves, I was transfixed....
10 things I loved about Kenya

10 things I loved about Kenya

Kenya’s been on my African travel wish list for a long time. I’ve dreamed of visiting the country that’s home to vast plains teeming with game home to the greatest wildlife migration on earth, the continent’s most famous tribe, the Maasai and tropical...