I’ve eaten a lot of traditional food in Ecuador. That’s what happens when you spend five months living in Cuenca with a host family and eating street snacks whenever you get…
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Before arriving in Arezzo, Italy, I’d only seen this little town on-screen. But from the moment I stepped inside Antonio’s small second-floor apartment, I knew I was going to like Arezzo…
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“I really want a garden.” Lelde steps carefully between the brambles and blueberry bushes, a red handled knife in her hand. She is looking for mushrooms. I don’t know the layout of…
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It was midnight at Euston Station. The rain was pouring outside, slicking its way down the carriage windows of the Caledonian Sleeper train. I opened my compartment door, wheeling a hastily…
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I came back to London with a cold. It’s totally understandable, really. From Peru to the United States to England in thirty eight hours, I travelled under a haze of stale…
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I hadn’t exactly planned to settle down in Sucre. You might not have noticed, but my travels have been slowing down again somewhat since I reached Bolivia. Not to say they’re…
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I’m not the first person to say I love the heat. When I was younger it was great, sure: sunbathing by swimming pools in Turkey and Greece with my family, summer…