The next day, Petra proper. In a word, Wow. And maybe lets use that word once more - wow. A UNESCO World Heritage site, it is a 1.2km long gorge with 80m cliffs towering above it. It truly felt out of this world, and most like a Star Wars set. I didn’t know so many …
Continue reading Exploring Petra & diving in Aqaba – oh Jordan!
Up early the following morning we met our tour guide and driver – and headed to Madaba to look at a 6th Century mosaic map of the area (Palestine/Jerusalem/ Nile Delta) which was discovered under the floor of the Greek Orthodox Basilica of Saint George. It’s quite hard to get your head around how old …
I decided when I moved back to Europe Jordan would be top of my places to go. Petra and Wadi Rum (the desert) looked absolutely out of this world, and of course, being so close to the Red Sea, I’d want to do some diving as well. So, when the Girls That Scuba email landed …
I got a tattoo based on my love of Hong Kong and the current fight for democracy, and was interview by Lauren James at the South China Morning Post (SCMP.) You can read that here: Umbrella, goggles, flag: tattoos use symbols of Hong Kong protest You can read about a few of the protests I've been …
Pak Tam Au - Ham Tin, Sai Kung I love the sun. I love the heat. Give me 32*C any day.... I actually enjoy taking in a breath of muggy hot air. But I'll go out whatever the weather, and often especially because it's raining, or windy. I love feeling all the elements - they …
A childhood dream to write for the SCMP, fulfilled on Friday - online and in actual print. I squealed when I saw the article on the reception desk at work! Check the online article here: Drunken Nights in Hong Kong and England (I didn't write the title) I loved sharing a newspaper page with Joshua …
Imagine walking around every day feeling overwhelmingly in love with your surroundings. Every-single-day. Feeling unable to open your eyes wide enough to take it all in, trying to open your heart as much as possible, somehow hoping to capture the experience, the emotions - remember every little thing you are seeing, you are feeling. This …
Continue reading My favourite day in my favourite city – WWII Gin Drinkers Tunnels, Hong Kong
Though no doubt it was the violence and police brutality on Wednesday 12th June that caught the world's eye it was the protest march on Sunday 16th June that showed real Hong Kong; what I know as the real spirit of Hong Kongers. If you believe the police 380,000 people marched. The organisers, Civil Human …
Before moving out of Asia later this year I wanted to do a few more weekend city trips. I’d visited North Korea in 2013, so decided to check out the South. I didn’t really gravitate towards any particular city so when a few friends recommended Busan, I said alright, & found a cheap flight there. This …
This piece was written in April 2017. It's by far the most personal thing I've shared online. Even more so than my anxiety piece. I look back at that time, and I felt I had come so far, achieved so much (I had), but wow - I had no idea what was yet to come. …
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