“A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating… a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost as gone to hide.” – Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish.
Adventure
“Laos is the kind of place that can easily capture your heart and not let you go. “Anthony Bourdain”
At the heart of Guangzhou, one of China’s most modern cities, lies a hidden world — **Shipai Village**. Just steps away from luxury malls and skyscrapers, this tiny 0.73 km² maze houses over **100,000 residents**. Once a rural village, Shipai became a vertical labyrinth of “handshake buildings” — where walls almost touch and sunlight barely…
Anne Lamott’s quote, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining,” and George Bernard Shaw’s observation that “if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a lighthouse” as a symbol of altruism.
When you travel, you can stumble across some of the oddest things. Ironically, but not surprisingly, most of them are in the USA. For example, Cadillac Ranch: An art installation in Amarillo, Texas, featuring ten vintage Cadillacs buried nose-first in a field.
Or, what about Carhenge? Located in Alliance, Nebraska, this is a replica of…
We're pretty old, and we can't think of a time period in our lives that has been so tumultuous and angry as it is now in 2025. We're no scientists, but we reckon most of all of this noise and waste and hatred is down to one specific person and his minions. We…
Here's a timely post, one focused on one of the more popular countries at the moment, and that would be Canada. It's always been there, for sure, but it's only been in the past few years where it's really had its place in the sun (even if there's snow.) People usually think of…
“It’s Niagara Falls. It’s one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn’t want to walk across it?” Nik Wallenda, a man famed for daredevil stunts, said this about Niagara Falls when asked why he wanted to walk across on a tightrope.
Over the past decade, research has profoundly reshaped our understanding of Neanderthals, moving from a view of them as unsophisticated “brutes” to a complex, closely related species with advanced cultural, social, and technological abilities, whose genetic legacy lives on in modern humans.
“My flat was bright and spacious. It wasn’t well insulated, so it could get cold, but it certainly seemed to be of a higher build quality than what we’ve got now.” — An anonymous long-term resident, reflecting on the original brutalist flats.
“How can we ever build Europe if young people do not see it as a collective project and a vision of their own future?”
. . .that is a dead set genius? A quantum leap. Oh, ha ha.
You might think that Australia is one of those places where the air is free, the skies are wide open and getting around is mostly by car. Maybe in some of the more remote places, that's probably be the…
Suits you, sir! You want more? You'll definitely get it in India. We've been several times and the country lives up to the legend. But, if this is your first foray, it's best to dip your toes in with experts who will euphemistically throw petals on your path. And…