First up, I need to apologise to you all. I'm falling behind in reading and commenting on everybody's journals. I will catch up, I promise, but I've been severely lacking in motivation for anything much lately.

( Cut for discussion of mental health )

One of the things I love about travelling is that you meet so many new people and try new things. Something about new people and experiences that especially interests me is finding out the ways your culture is the same and yet different from others, and how you personally can be the same and yet different when you go new places. This is one of ( Read more... )

This time last year, I had just gotten home from a trip to Fiji. It was was half holiday and half volunteer work. I went with a company called Volunteer Eco Students Abroad, and the group I was with had about 50 volunteers including Mark and myself. Last January I promised that I'd post some pictures but I never got around to it. Travel Tales ( Read more... )

( A Perfect Day in Rome )

A friend of mine used to keep a blog where, amongst other things, she told stories of her travel adventures most Thursdays. J, I don't know if you still drop in here to read occasionally, but if you do I hope you don't mind I'm stealing your tradition and making one change: for maximum alliteration it's going to be Travel Tales Tuesday. I don't ( Read more... )