Fellow travel blogger Shane at Sea Salt Secrets published a great post last week: the Would You Rather: Travel Edition. It is full of fascinating hypothetical questions and definitely got me thinking. I'm going to answer some of Shane's "would you rathers" and a few of my own too - and then I want …
thinking about travel
When people equate talking about travels to bragging or showing off
I've mentioned before that if I start a story with a sentence like "When I lived in Bratislava ..." that people sometimes have a giggle at me. Same goes for "When I was in Tunisia ..." or "When I was on the Trans-Siberian ..." As far as I can figure (and some of this figuring out comes from …
If you travel enough, everybody looks the same
Before I left Australia to live in Japan, someone warned me that it might be a bit of a culture shock to be surrounded by only Japanese people - because they look different. I'm sure this person didn't mean this in a racist way at all, rather they were passing on their own experience, and …