It was lovely to revisit Copenhagen last year, a great city all round that’s noticeably changed since I first visited. There were lots of little things I really appreciated this time which I hadn’t seen before like the revitalised migrant neighbourhood in Nørrebro and the Kastrup Sea Bath.… Read More Copenhagen retrospective
We left Antigua early on our last morning in Guatemala, spending most of the morning travelling to Mexico. The border crossing ended up being fairly straightforward — even though it was the day the world was supposed to end in 2012. … Read More A very quick tour of Mexico & Guatemala
California has always loomed large in my imagination, mainly because of what I saw on tv and in films. When I finally visited it was one of the few places I’ve ever been to where I instantly felt at home exactly because it felt full of possibilities.… Read More California road trip video
I don’t know if we really celebrate things properly in Australia because our laissez-faire attitude means that we have a hard time taking things seriously; but maybe it’s just that we have an easygoing way of celebrating things, and there’s something to be said for that. … Read More Happy new year from Sydney
A few months ago I was sent an email that began with: This is probably a bit out of left field, but a friend and I are organising an event you might enjoy… I’m a sucker for a personal invitation like that, which is why I flew down at the end of October to spend a long weekend in Ballarat.… Read More At a geek feminist meet-up in Ballarat
The thing about being a writer is much of what you produce gets completely buried on your hard drive and in notebooks. But I discovered this short piece the other day, and reading it brought me right back to four years ago in Chiang Mai. Where I was the same same but different. October 2010 I learnt… Read More Same same but different in Thailand
I ended the article with a question, raising the fact that these women were perhaps going from the frying pan of sex work to the fire of Cambodian garment factories.… Read More Getting facts wrong in Cambodia
The Travels of Elephant Woman 