I got a long email from a 19-year-old reader named Dylan this week. It is full of questions about travelling and working as a "digital nomad" - someone who works largely online, and can be anywhere in the world but still able to work. I'm certainly not location-independent in my work yet - most of …
lessons from travel
How travel helps you want a minimalist lifestyle
Every single time I return home from a trip I have a burning desire to declutter my house. Yes, travelling makes me want to lead a much more minimalist life and I love it. In fact, given my tendencies otherwise to hoard and by untidy, I should probably travel every month and then my house would look …
Dubai Airport and how the difficult parts of travelling fade quickly from my memory
En route to DubaiBefore our Europe trip this year, I'd managed to get a bit nervous about the first week which involved travelling on my own with a three-year-old: a long-haul flight from Australia to Europe with an overnight stop in Dubai, a couple of nights in Vienna, a couple of trains to Trnava …