She Goes – Travel for adventurous people

Name: Valerie Khoo Age: 39 Occupation: Director of the Sydney Writers’ Centre, Journalist, Keynote Speaker Favourite travel destination?: My favourite place in the world is home. To me, it’s like being in heaven. But as for travel destinations, I would say New York. It’s exciting, vibrant and full of wo...

I was reading a short story recently wherein the protagonist asked his most widely travelled friend about the commonalities between countries – essentially, what was the same everywhere. The answer was, ‘The ubiquity of sparrows.’ This is a startlingly true observation. There are sparrows...

Stevie and I on the funniest island we've ever been to - a reed island in Lake Titicaca, Peru We have a winner! Well, two winners actually. Congratulations to Elly Wright and Nita Alexander for their winning answers. Elly said, “America is the funniest – Will Farrell, Ben Stiller, Jack Black &...

Name:  Georgia Keighery Age: (actual age) 31, (emotional age) 12. Occupation: Writer Where do you live?: I live in an area of Singapore know as Tanjong Rhu (home of the many blocks of condominiums that house the countless expats that live in this city). Why did you move there?: I moved here because my husban...

Esurient  Hungry; greedy. Esurient comes from the present participle of Latin esurire, ‘to be hungry, to desire eagerly,’ from edere, ‘to eat.’  

There are so many reasons to board the plane. Sometimes we are running away from our jobs, responsibilities and the repetition of the same faces over and over again. Broken hearts and bored minds have sold more berths than sound reasoning could ever justify. Sometimes we are running to something – a place ...

Some nations really are funnier than others. The Irish raise a laugh wherever they go, as do the Scots. What is it about bleak weather and an oat-based diet that brings out such joviality? Conversely, there are nations that seem to congenitally lack a sense of humour, namely Germany and Switzerland. Thai p...

Name: Jen Bishop            Age: 28  Occupation: Magazine editor Favourite travel destination?: Paris is my favourite city in the world and I’ve been there 13 times (not so easy now I live in Australia and not the UK!). I love the architecture, the culture, the art, the people, the wine, the rom...

Yes, even the ancients had waste management issues. And in the case of ancient Rome, the culprit was olive oil amphorae. Monte Testaccio is a man-made hill consisting of millions of pottery shards which date back around 2,000 years. And when I heard about it while watching a history doco, I knew I had to find...

German is an ‘agglutinative’ language, meaning that it is perfectly legitimate to string together related words to describe a particular person, thing, or situation and thus create a brand new compound word. In some circles, it’s considered to be a bit of a linguistic sport to try to come up...