The café owner looks at me long and hard, his eyes almost piercing beneath a full head of silver hair. “I remember you. Didn’t you come here as a young boy?” Astonished, I manage a simple “yes”, wondering how he could have recognised me after all these years. “I think I may know your father.” [...]
Sometimes life is all about choosing the crazy option. Whether it’s taking spontaneous trips just days before an important deadline, or moving to a country with barely 5 months of the local language, it makes things a heck of a lot more fun. So when an old friend asked if I wanted to see the [...]
What do you do when you get a 5-day weekend in early December? For those of us in Salamanca, the answer was obvious: plan a brilliant escape to the Canaries. At first we picked the smaller island of La Palma, but the presence of hostels and cheap flights (and the fact that we were students) [...]
When I first returned to Hong Kong both my immediate and extended family members were quick to point out a drastic change in my outward appearance. After a month of eating my way through Madrid, Brussels and finally Scotland, I was going to have to do something to kick-start my very own battle of the [...]
