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La Fête de L’Escalade: Celebrating a unique Genevan custom
Geneva is often accused of lacking any ‘culture’ or ‘vibe’ of its own, being as it is comprised of 40% non-Genevan residents; the home of countless international organisations and important banks and hedge funds, housing expatriates from every corner of the world. This is a transitory city, where international white collar elites pass through on … Read more
Porto and Harry Potter: The Magic in Portugal’s Hard-Working City
Porto is not like any other city I’ve traveled. Having experienced Lisbon’s imperial beauty and flashy personality, and regaled with stories of Port wine tasting and cellar tours, I’d imagined a city with oodles of pristine monuments and grapevine-entangled terraces overlooking a sparkling, cerulean ocean. And indeed, one could venture into Porto and spend a … Read more
Madrid and I: A not-quite love story
There is nothing quite so frustrating to a seasoned traveller as the experience of not quite ‘getting’ a place as one passes through. Of course, not every corner of the world into which we wander can make the ‘Top 10′ list, but the skilled traveller (and even more, the skilled travel writer) should be able … Read more
Miami: “Say Hello to My Little Friend”
Miami is like a drug. Addictive, seductive, and all-consuming; being there is like falling down the proverbial rabbit hole, and it becomes almost impossible not to be sucked in, moving in time to Miami’s internal heartbeat, at least for a minute. I went to Miami an opinionated idealist with a strong head on my shoulders … Read more
Orlando: the Magic Kingdom?
Talk of Orlando as a holiday destination tends to evoke a singular entity in the public imaginary: Disney. And while it’s true that much tourism is geared towards Walt and his mini empire built on top of acres and acres of swampland south of Orlando, this was all the more reason for me to try … Read more
In The Territory: A Tale of Two Australias
Arriving into Australia’s Northern Territory was like stepping into another world. I am not sure how much it was me having been away from Australia for two years, or the fact that this was really a different Australia than what I’ve always known, but immediately I felt that the experience of travelling in one’s country … Read more
The surreptitious traveller: bona fide travel or idle tourism?
My feeling is that Europeans tend to take travel for granted. When one has the option to nip across for a weekend under the Mallorcan sun or a two-day Parisian shopping spree or a fly-by historical excursion to Warsaw’s ghettos, then I would wager that jumping on a one hour easyjet flight to no-matter-where at … Read more
Hipster Travel
Over the past few years, I’ve noticed a new breed of tourist pop up in various urban epicenters. Aside from those ‘regular’ tourists of sightseeing and pit-stops and happy snaps, there exists a parallel brand of tourist – preferring to think of themselves instead as ‘travellers’ inspired by the likes of Kerouac and the beat … Read more
On travelling alone: a lonely girl in lonely Lisbon
Despite considering myself a seasoned traveller (or at least reasonably well-travelled for someone of my ripe young age), I had never braved the daunting experience of setting out on a trip totally and utterly alone. That was until recently, when by a twist of fate I was confronted with the specter of spending what seemed … Read more
Just another travel blog
Here it is: my attempt at a travel blog. I am neither naive, nor a cock-eyed optimist, and I know how hard it is to break into travel writing, let alone to become successful at it. But as one of those famous travel maxims (much like the one I named my blog after) goes: A … Read more
