“No Selfie” Signs Are a Thing Now
Indonesia as a nation is not known for its vigorous approach to health and safety. Over years exploring the country, I’ve seen motorbikes carry five...
Category: Wibble
It’s Official. I Need a US Politics Intervention.
PLEASE NOTE: I am moving my RSS feed to this address: feeds.feedburner.com/travelswithanineyearold/ofRK. If you subscribe by RSS, please update your settings! American politics in 2017...
On Behalf of Self-Employed People Everywhere, Can the US Hold the Election Tomorrow?
Like many people around the world, I find the multi-car pileup that is the 2016 American presidential election at least as addictive as the gif...
This Is Not a Celebratory Forties Post
I remember how very old I felt approaching 30. And, with hindsight, I’m sure 42 will come to seem equally young, equally naive. Yet, like...
Oh to Describe the Teenage Years!
More from a surfeit of material than a lack, I haven’t been blogging much of late, although my desktop is cluttered with half-finished posts. That’s...
The Cheapskate’s Guide to Travel
Many, many articles on the interwebz purport to detail how to travel for free. Newsflash: you can’t. You can spend money to earn points, spend...
The Elephant in the Room at TBEX Asia
A travel blogger requested on Twitter that I write something about the political situation in Thailand, rather than merely “trolling” by sharing links about the...
Because Sometimes International Data Comes in Very Handy
I have an odd, and vaguely woolly attachment, to life without a smartphone, and life without data. And that’s not only because whenever I spend...
Ten Things Travel Writers Do That Folk Who Are on Holiday Don’t Do
I’ve written before about how fundamentally unglamorous it is to be a freelance writer. There are also many ways in which writing about travel for...
The Seven Types of Language Speaker
Native English speakers are a peculiar bunch. Blessed with the world’s dominant language, many of us will pass our entire lives without needing to use...