It wasn’t until the ripe old age of 21 that I got my first hangover. Before then, I would bounce out of bed bright and early with a whole exciting day ahead of me. Some called me lucky. I call it a curse. My hangovers are made so much worse because they’re plagued with nostalgia.…
It gets to the point when travelling solo that you don’t seek out female dorms anymore. You get over the higher fees, tight pre-existing clicks of your roommates and surprisingly, judgement for showing the tiniest bit of skin when you change. So what’s your alternative? It didn’t take me long to move into mixed dorms…
Like all newbie travellers, I had no idea what to expect when I hit the road with my backpack for the first time. With all these exotic places embedded in my mind, I strove to visit them all. Ultimately with high expectations of a destination generally comes disappointment. However, some places I have travelled to…
The mornings are dark. It was just last week I could paddle out for a surf and soak up the morning’s warmth at 6am. Now it is almost pitch black. A tell-tale sign that autumn is on its way. Fall colours are lacking, those iconic shades of orange and yellow that signify the end of…
The crisp cool air caressed my cheek. The birds in the bushes beside me began to stir. All else was silent. Only the waves breaking on the sandbar broke the stillness. I gazed down at the beach. I could see a lone fisherman, rubbing his eyes, forcing them to adjust to the changing light. He…
