Freetown - Sierra Leone Strap yourselves in! Every now and then in life there is a moment that feels defining and sat in Malmesbury’s Summer Café with Rut the day before I was flying to Freetown, Sierra Leone - and her to Auckland, New Zealand - felt like one such moment. One week ago, Freetown …
Dhigurah island - Maldives After three nights on Dhangethi we hopped over to Dhigurah island that appeared more orientated towards tourists including a little more lapse on the no bikini role for whatever reason that may have been. The weather remained changeable with black skies omnipresent throughout the week, always threatening rain and regularly acting …
Dhangethi Island – Maldives I have the greatest respect for people who walk onto an international flight with a bag of McDonald’s, especially a flight to the Maldives with Emirates at 4am. It shows a certain degree of not giving a damn, and I confess that I was a little jealous of not having the …
Marseille to Paris - France Marseille had been a great success. Rut was more than happy to watch Argentina beat Wales for her first international rugby match and I got to see England scrape past Fiji with yet another far from impressive display. Still, both our teams had won, and we boarded the train to …
Lille to Marseille - France The story begins in Lille, a city that appeared notoriously difficult to get accommodation six months in advance, and one that did I didn’t have high expectations of. Five married guys and I were visiting for the final group stages of the Rugby World Cup, and somehow it fell on …
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