Being a fan of dark tourism (Auschwitz for a birthday treat, anyone?), I couldn’t resist an opportunity to visit Chernobyl, site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. If you’re interested too, read on to find out what’s in store when visiting Chernobyl. Here are some things that are creepy: clowns hiding under bridges. A…
The world’s coolest flags and what they mean, from the Seychelles to Kiribati, via a stop in Nepal.
Picture your bedroom at home. You’ve got a bed, a TV on a dresser maybe, a wardrobe. Now add a sink, then a stove, then a shower. Don’t picture it any bigger. Just imagine how a kitchen and a bathroom would look in your current space. That’s what my experience couchsurfing in Paris was like….
It was a glorious day of bright sunshine and fluffy blue clouds, and I was headed to the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Locals relaxed inside their shaded moped tuk-tuks or stood smiling beside carts of ice-cold water and Coke; tourists meandered around the streets, cameras swinging around their necks; even the man in the hostel…
Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Great Plague of 2020, whatever your choice vernacular is, has us all stuck at home. Our trip to Savannah, Charleston, and a cruise to the Bahamas was well and truly shuttered a long time ago. But there are ways of traveling despite coronavirus, as I set out to find out when I…
There is a city that crosses continents. You read that right. It’s a city so badass that it couldn’t be contained within one puny continent. It was ruled by Greeks as Byzantium and Ottomans as Constantinople. And now it’s ruled by Turks as Istanbul and it’s partly in Europe and partly in Asia. If Istanbul…
Here’s the sorry tale of our devastating Miami disappointment. Settle in, friends. Here we go. Miami. Sun-drenched, glamorous Miami. Resident to many a celebrity who hankered for the yacht life and grew tired of LA’s fakery. An endless line of high-rise hotels, summer homes, and retiree apartments trace the coast, from Miami all the way…
Below are some photos of the Taj Mahal in fog, for those with a fondness for visibility-reducing weather phenomena and Indo-Islamic architecture. When we first arrived before dawn, you couldn’t even see your hand in front of your face, and by the time we left it was also super heavy fog. Thankfully, in the few…
Here’s my experience in Guangzhou on a transit visa. An accidental transit visa I should say, because I’m not the brightest spark plug in the toolbox (is that how that saying goes?). At best I thought I was going to have to spend the night in a hotel room under armed guard, at worst chained…
If you couldn’t swim, like literally you had never been in water before, would you go snorkeling with sharks in Belize? That’s not rhetorical. I’d like your opinions please. Anyway, I went to Belize, specifically the island of Caye Caulker, and I went snorkeling with sharks with a chubby Brazilian who couldn’t swim. It was…