A Walk in the Rice Fields
When she was a little girl, Su’s father built her a little tower on stilts in the rice paddies. Not to play houses — unusually...
Category: Places
A Very Little House
This is the view from our very little house in the rice fields in Ubud, Bali. We’ve taken it for a month, to study Indonesian...
Going Nuclear in the Outback
The Outback majors on crazy towns. Tiny communities, stranded in an inland sea of sand and scrub, hundreds of miles from anywhere. Yet even after...
10 Things to Know before Driving Outback Australia
1: Farmers Don’t Like Pulling Your Camper Out of Their Road Outback Australia is a great place to drive a 4WD. If you know how...
The Craziest Town on the Planet?
Arriving in Coober Pedy, in the South Australian outback, is like landing on another planet. Not just because the place has stood in for Mars...
My Love-Hate Relationship with Australia
THINGS I LOVE ABOUT AUSTRALIA 1: The Landscapes After Namibia and Mongolia, Australia is the third least densely populated country in the world. And given...
Solo in Sydney* or: Getting My Groove Back
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a pulse will not be in want of attention in a cocktail...
The Barmy Army Explain the Rules of Cricket
Today in Adelaide saw the fifth and final day of the second English-Australian Test cricket match, to the outsider one of the most bewildering sporting...
Travel Photo: Umbrellas, Bo Sang, Thailand
Bo Sang, a village outside Chiang Mai, is the umbrella-making capital of Thailand.
Seeing Stars in the Outback
Weather doesn’t get more biblical than droughts, floods and plagues of locusts. And that precise trifecta has hit the South Australian outback this summer. The...