I am not known as the kind of traveller who stays in a resort hotel. In fact, I've only ever bought a "resort package" style holiday once, on a last-minute trip to Egypt just after I'd arrived in Germany to work, but was promptly given two weeks off as all the students were going on holiday …
lessons learnt from travel
Should you travel? Of course! Learning from nine years of Not A Ballerina
Think back nine years. In other words, cast your mind back to the faraway year of 2005. Where were you and what were you doing? Nine years ago in Germany ... I know exactly what I was doing on this day in 2005. I was sitting at a funny little wooden Ikea desk in my apartment in Heilbronn, Germany, …
On climbing Mt Fuji and being both under-prepared and under-skilled in the local language
My two-year stay in Japan saw me based in Osaka and Nara, rather than the more common Tokyo area, and that meant the magnificent Mount Fuji (Fuji-san) was not quite round the corner. But it was so often present in discussions and very early on I decided that I wanted to climb it before I left Japan. …