Are you sometimes afraid to travel? I've talked about my travel anxiety and pre-trip nerves before but earlier this year I had such a big reminder of why getting over those fears is not only important but utterly sensible. I admit: I was afraid to travel with my son to …
lessons learnt from travel
How to pick meaningful souvenirs OR getting coffee mugs from Norwegians
When I was a kid, I was pretty addicted to bringing back cool souvenirs from any new countries I visited. I've still got quite a few of them, and now that I'm living somewhere for longer than a year or two, I've got them sitting on shelves above my desk so I can enjoy them when I'm working. But …
Am I sad that an airline lost my luggage? Hell yes!
I am (usually) the kind of person who does not dwell on the negative. Life is too short, right? And every cloud, silver lining, blah blah blah. (And in most cases that stuff is actually true.) That's why it has taken me six months to blog about the fact that Tiger Airways (the Singapore-based …