May, 2010

Rafiq Copeland bids farewell to England with a list of his favourite things about the country.

It may be winter in Europe, but it’s always summertime on the island of Santorini, Greece, writes Matt de Neef.

For a nation accustomed to receiving blank looks when bargaining, and whose only haggling technique consists of asking “What’s your best on that?”, buying toothpaste in China can be a shock to the Australian system.

Now it would be remiss of me to suggest that only foreign travelers are wankers. In fact, if I’ve learned nothing else from travel it’s that wankerism is a worldwide problem in need of a worldwide solution. Like global warming. Or hipsters.

Parents across most of the Western world take for granted that their child will be born and raised in a healthy environment. Families in Indonesia don’t have the same luxury, especially those living next one to one of the many coal-powered electric stations.

The travel bug is kind of like the herpes virus. And there’s just something about being surrounded by travellers at the airport that seems to bring on the worst cold sores, writes Matt de Neef.

Desktop backgrounds: the perfect spot to gain a bit of holiday inspiration.

Shanghai has been one of the destinations I’ve been most looking forward to on our Asia itinerary. That is, until I arrived and underwent public humiliation over a flowery toiletry bag.

Fregmonto reports from a theatre company in Bhutan, where performers are drawing from the bipolar culture they have grown up in, with traditional dances mixing with Disney channel, hip hop, salsa and Bollywood, to create exciting, living breathing performances.