Travel
This is a guest post by Lauren D. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
I used to think slow travel meant fewer stamps in a passport. Staying places for weeks at a time. But I’ve realized that you could spend five days in one city and still consume it the same way you’d rush through three countries in five — checklist in hand, camera up, moving from…
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This is a guest post by Amanya Mathur. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
We often assume that culture is created inside the grandest institutions. If we want to understand a civilisation, we visit its museums, wander through its palaces, queue outside its cathedrals and photograph its monuments. History, after all, tends to announce itself through…
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This is a guest post by Daria. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
Italy sounds so tasteful on my tongue when I say it; even better when the travel agent across from me does.
He waits for the answer for just a few seconds. I nod. One flight, no return.
We land what feels like a few steps from…
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This is a guest post by Awesu Olaniyi. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
Having lived in London for years, I rarely plan my explorations. Instead, I begin with a coffee hunt.
A café is more than just a place to drink caffeine. It’s a temporary home between the street and the city, a place to read, organise thoughts, watch strangers, and…
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A very well written book in which we are recounted the memories of Chris Broad who has travelled to Japan to teach English.
This is not a typical book of memoirs – while it follows Chris from his initial job interview at the Japanese Embassy in London and onwards to teaching in Japan and his further life there, the cultural insights we experience are…