Back to the Garden – Theo’s blog Arriving in the village of Batu Katak to begin our “jungle trek” in the rainforest of Sumatra was like arriving to stay with a celebrity I’d been a fan of since childhood. I was full of anticipation for exotic sights and sounds, and dreaming of magical wildlife encounters, […]
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550 million years, and counting…. Theo’s blog On a drive through Gosford, New South Wales, towards the end of our stay, I noticed I was no longer noticing Australia. I’d gotten used to the utes and double-trailered trucks driving at sober speeds past bungalows and verandahs and retail parks where well-fed sunscreened people in shorts
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The most wonderful time of year! From a temple in Thailand (in October!) to, unbelievably, a beach in Oz on Christmas Day… We wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone who has encouraged and supported us along the way. You have warmed us up when we resembled drowned rats – and cooled us down when
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Cause and Effect – Theo’s blog Back in 2023, once me and Shannon had realised the impact flying has on nature and climate and decided we never wanted to fly again, I’d assumed that trips by train into Europe were the most I was likely to see of the big old world. I’d fully digested
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It’s all gone south – Theo’s blog It felt romantic, as it always does to me, heading out to sea from the Malaysian Port of Batam. After two and a half months travel, we’d finally stepped off the land mass that had Amsterdam at one end and us now at the other. I felt elated
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Green Desserts – Theo’s Blog One of the really interesting things about travelling through the world at ground level is seeing the land and the people change through gradual over-lapping distinctions. When you cross a man-made border there’s still elements of the previous place and people in the new place and people, and by the
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In the Kingdom of Siam – Theo’s blog At exactly 8am, as we hoick our baggage into the homely tile and timber concourse of Udon Thani Station, all the Thai people around us – guards and porters, vendors and cabbies, coffee-clutching business travellers, school kids, blue-haired goth teens and peasant family groups – stop and
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Bombs and Buddhas – Theo’s blog I was 11 when I first became aware of the Vietnam war in 1968/69. News from that terrible conflict, and the anti-war movement in the States, was one of the things that radicalised me early into a teen boy wearing a Mao badge to school and studying the map
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Care and Coercion, Kindness and Control – Theo’s blog I’m writing my last blog from China after leaving China, on a train from Kunming to Luang Prabang in Laos, because there’s things I wouldn’t write about being in China while being in China, just in case. It struck me after our first week here that
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While friends lay sleeping in the west – Theo’s blog The other night, I was standing on the hotel roof gazing at the moon over Guilin. I thought back in my mind across the land we’d travelled over, visualising what my friends at work in England were doing at that moment. That’s when I realised that, although
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