A Traveling Blog - Having Fun Flying Solo
Working on my laptop in a coffee shop in Cambodia I wasn’t listening but it wasn’t noise, my normal excuse for a loss of focus, that distracted me. This time it was movement caught out of the corner of my eye and what a great distraction it was. Read More
Traveling is always enlightening. You could call it a pay-as-you-go open university. Learning of the suffering the African Albinism population endures was one such lesson for me of just how cruel human kind can be.Read More
It’s Cape Town, South Africa in modern times and a South African actor has just finished up a small role that had lasted a week. He’s been paid for the week’s work, cash-in-hand which means a sizeable wad of rand notes in his pocket.Read More
A local guy had been friendly, showing me the right place to catch a bus to Tofo and then offering to take me to Tofinho. I want to believe, had to believe that he was genuine and his motives weren’t leading me “up the garden path”.
There were many thoughts flashing through my head as we headed along the beach. Older woman with a younger guy, “oh what a cliché we must look like”, “why is he doing this?”, “is he thinking I am his chance to gain some money?” “does he think I’m his ticket out of poverty?”Read More
It’s Friday night in a small beach side community and the girls are heading to where the action is. Tofo, and there’s no stopping them!
Well not a stop really, more a pause in the proceedings as we indulged in a few Savanna’s and vodkas at the local Shebeen while waiting for the taxi to come pick us up from Tofo.
There had been a few signs, a constant whining noise and the electronically written message on the dashboard. It had told us the car was overdue for its maintenance check.
Apparently the cars warning signs had not been in jest, our transport was now unmovable on the side of the road. Three of the wheels were facing forward while the front left was facing at a severe 90-degree angle towards the bushes. When looked at with a smartphones torch, all its ball bearings were exposed in their casing to the world – oops!Read More
A Travelers Facebook community, like all Facebook communities, are set up to function as help networks for the communities they support, be it travelers, expats, surfers, knitters the list is endless. Unfortunately, what tends to end up happening is it becomes a platform for idle people. People seeking to share with a captive audience their opinions which are in the main part are rarely positive. It provides a safety net of invisibility for people to say anything and everything that enters their head. Things which would never be uttered in the social life we’ve been used to.Read More
Most of my last seven years have been spent living in a developing country, specifically Cambodia which provided its own set of life problems. Returning to a developed country can also throw up its own unique life problems and the common theme here is that most problems center around ones ability to assimilate, or not.Read More
My 20th time within your tight embrace and still you have me in awe. You still hold me enthralled at your share size, your complexities and your openness to anything, anybody and anytime.Read More
The seat is not that comfortable, built for short rather than long term stays. They’re lined up in a row, in groups of four with dark, slippery vinyl covering.Read More
I lived in SouthEast Asia in a tourist town. Millions of people from all over the world come to visit that place every year, ticking the boxes on their travel the world project.
I lived there and it was pretty much just like living anywhere else, in some ways.Read More
