My toes curl up when people talk about bucket lists. I’m sorry, I know I’m a horrible person, but I just find it hard to get on board with the whole bucket list concept. I was kind of surprised when I browsed my archives to realise I have been thinking this way for a long time, since at least …
thinking about travel
On surviving life without travel
When I catch up with friends these days, whether they’re a fellow travel addict or not, the conversation inevitably turns this way, and they give me a sympathetic look and ask: “How are you coping without travel?” A life suddenly without travel It’s a privileged problem to have, but the fact …
What if you could never travel again?
The world is pretty upside-down right now and this question has bubbled to the surface of my busy brain a few times lately: what if I could never travel again? What if my beautiful friends in Sydney or London or Japan who I’ve chatted to on video calls recently remain forever a grainy, digital …


