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Crooks in Kruger's Corner
Amid the vastness of South Africa’s Kruger National Park – at almost 20,000 square kilometres, it’s roughly the size of Slovenia – we’ve...
Michael Ward
Apr 304 min read
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A Place between Places
We wait - bound within the tracks amidst a hundred bodies. The roof keeps snow off our faces but the cold has a different, piercing aura...
Meredith Mclean
Apr 144 min read
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What lies on the other side ....
I never was a good student. All things considered however I was a pretty good wanderer. In 2021 I found myself in L’Aquila, a beautiful...
Bogdan Groza
Mar 243 min read
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all so ordinary
Because in the end, all travel is about memory. Mine, yours, our families’, everyone’s – distant memories, recent, for all time. Take,...
Stephen Orr
Jan 183 min read
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Arrival
We stumble from plane to blending corridors and clear yellow signs of arrival processed in a surprising minute we're clutched from what...
Bronwyn Rodden
Jan 12 min read
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Snailhouse in the Undeep
A friend reads aloud words he wrote in his mother tongue, translating in the twilight as he goes, for an audience foreign and tipsy. In...
Sarah Dunphy-Lelii
Dec 12, 20243 min read
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Christmas in Cahors
Cahors in December is three things:Â it is the grey-green clouds over Mont Saint-Cyr that cast turquoise shadows on the river; it is my...
Bella Rough
Dec 9, 20243 min read
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Barcelona in an airconless room on a Friday afternoon
A cushion trembles in front of me, lodged somewhat uncomfortably geometrical between its couch and the tea table my legs were stretched...
Ting-Jen Kuo
Sep 11, 20242 min read
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Manila Commute
Do you know what it’s like to be an ant underneath a kid’s magnifying glass, being burnt to a crisp in the backyard? I do. It’s the only...
Jordan Winters
May 18, 20243 min read
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Vancouver
The crows are in flight, reminders of omens and overcast skies. But this day is different, a horizon layered in gold as the birds start...
Bill Arnott
Apr 24, 20243 min read
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Smelter Town
Our Jetta died when we stopped to answer the call of nature. A text to AAA yielded the prospect of a two hour wait for a mechanic. Our...
William C. Crawford
Mar 31, 20243 min read
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Galápagos Sketches: The Saturday Feria
The morning mist has ended. Now the hammering of a new house being built and the crowing of a cock echo through this Saturday’s streets....
Lorraine Caputo
Mar 7, 20243 min read
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Finding Saint Michael on the Gone Viking trail
A slosh of cool sea sussed a watery score as I shuffled through shallows, a thousand-year pilgrimage trail. In fact the route I was on...
Bill Arnott
Oct 27, 20232 min read
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A Stranger in Tangier
I was in Tangier only briefly, and as one with nowhere to be, nowhere to go, no one to meet, I chose the path of the flâneur. I woke...
Jesse Ofsowitz
Oct 25, 20233 min read
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Labyrinth
The inner west. A different world. Our friend’s sandstone steps at the back thread down through a garden filled with exotic plants and...
Yvonne Kuvener
Jul 31, 20232 min read
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Travelling Between Planets in Texas
In 1986 I journeyed every weekend from my regular job in Dallas down to a four-room rented shack on 400 acres, an hour away, in a part of...
David Fowler
Jul 7, 20233 min read
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Metaphoric: A Gone Viking Story
I stood on what felt like the edge of the earth. Which it was, in a way. Cusp of terra firma. Beyond, nothing but sea and sky. I’d hiked...
Bill Arnott
Jul 6, 20232 min read
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Carillon
It’s fifteen past the hour and a handful of tiny trills emanates from the gingerbread structure down the hill. I’m close enough to...
Elizabeth Downing
Jul 6, 20233 min read
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Transformation and resilience in the shadow of Nanda Devi
My parents enjoyed gardening. The nearest nursery was in another small town 13km away. As a child I’d get loaded into the family car when...
Brian Furze
Jul 2, 20234 min read
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A New Job
We landed at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport at 2am. The airport had only one terminal and at that hour things were quiet. Our...
Paul Dufficy
May 8, 20232 min read
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