Friendship

While studying Quechua culture on Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca, a lonely researcher struggles to communicate with the local weavers, forcing her to reflect on who is at fault as she …

This story was selected as a finalist in our “A Human Moment” travel writing competition sponsored by Travel Lemming. Sitting alone in a jazz café, a traveller hears a familiar …

On a quiet beach in Hoi An, Vietnam, a traveller befriends a local vendor, overcoming language barriers and bonding over their shared human concept of happiness.

A traveller trades Australia for a dilapidated barn in rural France, finding community around a central communal bread oven as neighbours visit to swap slices of pizza, glasses of wine, …