Part 1: Preparation is overrated Part two: natural disasters are inevitable; those of the fashion variety are not Part 3: Look who’s made the news again, this time with its jet-setting ash cloud Freelance journalist Laura Burgoine writes: In the first and second installments of this blog I self-indulgently ranted about traveling dilemmas I encountered while in [...]

Underneath the ashes of the exploding volcano, Chilean students are on strike, writes Paul Kearney.

Part two: natural disasters are inevitable; those of the fashion variety are not. Freelance journalist Laura Burgoine writes: The recent spate of natural disasters casting a path of destruction across the planet with the same vigour as Lindsay Lohan on a bender reinforces two things for me. Firstly that we can’t ever truly be prepared [...]

PART 1: Preparation is overrated Freelance journalist Laura Burgoine writes: This time last year I left Melbourne, bound for Chile, with my laptop and very little else. I had no contacts, zero Spanish skills, no mobile phone, and no real accommodation at the other end. I was armed with a Macbook and the foolish delusion [...]

Chileans, particularly Chilean dads love to give a speech. And not just your “short and sweet” speech, we’re talking speeches covering love, life, the world, evolution and a touch of philosophy, writes Katy Morrison.