May 25, 2021
Mother of Octopi
During an octopus hunting expedition in Greece, a traveler earns a unique epithet after becoming the short-term caregiver of a wounded sea creature. In the early morning, a group of…
May 18, 2021
A Death in the Building
As the death of a tenant sparks a sullen commotion in his apartment building, a traveler wanders around the streets and alleyways of Tbilisi, Georgia's historic capital city. They started…
May 11, 2021
Flesh Memories on the Camino de Santiago
After serious knee surgery, a traveler is forced to confront her limits as she attempts Spain's most famous pilgrimage trail. This story is part of our "How Travel Changed Me"…
April 6, 2021
Locked in
A traveler in Tuscany gets locked in his apartment, where he witnesses the lives of passersby below his balcony and gets a taste of the Covid-19 lockdowns to come. I…
March 15, 2021
PCR: Personal Contingency Report
A traveler hoping to get back to the United Kingdom does her best to navigate the scheduling of the dreaded PCR test. Mathematical formulas are my forte, and I can…
March 1, 2021
Lisbon and the Geography of Loss and Longing
A writer and sociologist gives a richly painted portrait of the multiplicity of characters who make up Portugal's largest city. On the street where I first live in Graça, the…
January 25, 2021
Al Dente
Distant memories are kindled when a traveler visits a family run restaurant tucked into a Florence side street. Selected as a finalist in the "Reunions" travel writing competition. There is…
January 5, 2021
A Moment in Avignon
In the midst of ticking boxes on a tight itinerary, a traveler finds a simple moment of connection in the French countryside. Across the Rhone from the centre ville of…
December 29, 2020
The Land of Waterfalls
On a road trip through Iceland, a traveler ditches her itinerary and allows herself to be enveloped by the magic of the landscape, one waterfall at a time. "A land…
December 8, 2020
Surfing the Mediterranean
A Kiwi traveler in Italy finds that riding the waves is the perfect way to overcome the language barrier and make a connection with locals. When I looked into the…
