Climbing Mount Ararat: Borders, bears and rockets

San Antonio: The Daughters of Texas, The Alamo, and Mexico

Chapter 6 of A Kiwi on the Amtrak Tracks

Homestay in Hatay

At the northern end of the Levant, site of the famed city of Antioch

Cyprus, the island that copper’s named after

The legendary birthplace of Aphrodite, once at the heart…

15 Best Places to see the Sunrise in Auckland, New Zealand

Part 1: The City’s Eastern Beaches

Hatay, Explored Further

This is the second part of a two-part story. The first instalment is called…

On a Kiwi Visa in Cappadocia

Cappadocia is an ancient region of modern Turkey, full of strange…

Everest Base Camp

Chapter 4 of ‘A Nomad in Nepal’: Learning to share the track with yaks, dzos, mules…

Should we Bring Back Angela Merkel?

It’s a funny thing, but for as long as Angela Merkel was talking…

Climbing the Cone of Catastrophes

Beautiful but deadly, Mount Taranaki is reasonably easy to get up…