Happy day-after-Australia Day everyone! Seven planes, three trains, five buses, one boat, one ferry, countless taxis (old Ambassadors with very spring suspension), even more autorickshaws and a camel later, I am home from India – huzzah! Here are some fun pics of the local Indian transport:    

Name: Eli Wolfe Occupation: Artist, musician and filmmaker Favourite travel destination?: Planet earth, because there’s so much to see here. Its sounds clichéd but each place we have toured through we have found true beauty in. The variety and dynamic of experience and interaction varies so much. It’s like singling out the myriad of colours in [...]

Georgia Keighery runs like a gentle breeze in Cambodia The thing is this: if you rewind almost exactly 10 years, to almost exactly the same Sunday morning, I was in Sydney, rolling out of a club in the city and literally bumping straight into a marathon that was going on there. In my state, it [...]

The silly season is killing me. The drinking, the lack of sleep and the failure to eat anything larger than a 50c piece at parties means that I am turning from a normal human into a canape-eating zombie. The bags under my eyes need porters. It was an immense relief when I checked into VIBE [...]

Julia Nalivaiko’s Aussie friends used to ask, “What was it like in the Ukraine?” but, until recently, all she remembered was wearing a ‘bante’ (ribbons that look like shower sponges) to school. Fortunately for Julia, she has just spent the last few months in Russia and Ukraine with filmmaker Stuart McBratney, documenting the life, culture, [...]

Umina is the kind of place where a large chips feeds a family of four; a place yet to be discovered by evil developers. The main street is relaxingly daggy. The service is friendly, the shops are cluttered and the overall feeling is that you can go barefoot and no one cares. This laid back [...]

Where is the world’s fastest rollercoaster?  

What will you regret on your death bed? I recently read this very moving post written by palliative care worker Bronnie Ware. Here’s what she found were the common regrets among her dying patients: 1. They wished they’d been true to themselves, instead of living their lives to please other people. 2. They wished that they hadn’t [...]

Lisa Perkovic explores her dark side in the hills of Tuscany Once a year hidden high in the Tuscan hills, the streets of Certaldo are given over to the dark side. Under cover of darkness thousands of people converge on the cobblestoned roads to revel in Mercantia, the annual International Festival of Street Theatre. For [...]

Where does the world’s rarest flower grow?  What’s that, I hear you say? No idea? OK, I’ll tell you because it’s unbelievably interesting. The Apetahia or One-Sided Flower grows only in hidden places on top of Temehani, a mountain on the sacred Polynesian island of Ra-iatea. It won’t grow anywhere else on the island – [...]