Gambling with lives has recently been set up in the UK and published this video in the summer of 2019.
A powerful message.
For more information go to www.gamblingwithlives.org

Gambling with lives has recently been set up in the UK and published this video in the summer of 2019.
A powerful message.
For more information go to www.gamblingwithlives.org

I have completed another twelve months of travel and as well as listing where I was, I wanted to look back on what stayed with me. These are moments that I didn’t record at the time. Sometimes because the moment was fleeting, sometimes out of respect for the people involved, sometimes because I just wasn’t there! What follows is a year told in words instead of photographs.

During a week starting from the 20th November 2025, Hat Yai, in Southern Thailand became a disaster zone. People lost their homes, their livelihoods, in some cases their lives. This is not that story, this is a smaller one, set inside it.

I know there are bloggers out there who specialise in the subject … but I suffer enough from imposter syndrome in so many areas, I’m not wanting to add food blogger to the mix. I think after reading this post you will think there is not much chance of that!

For someone who travels full-time, I still get anxious whenever I’m actually on the move and today was no exception.

When I travel, I’m as likely to hunt for murals as museums, because street art feels alive: it’s political, playful, and sometimes defiant. From graffiti-tagged trains in Belgium to a hidden unicorn mural in a Granada car park, each wall tells a story,
