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Hazy days: the smoke that’s affecting Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Near Bengkulu, south Sumatra, October 2015 You see those rolling hills? Me neither. You know why? Because your lipstick won’t melt. Right now 40 million people are breathing in noxious smoke. The fires...
View ArticleTravel with us through India
Always wanted to travel to India? Then come with us! For the next month Mark and I will be travelling India, and every day we’ll be posting pics on Instagram. From the colours to the craziness, the...
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Welcome home
I’ve been travelling the world for almost 30 years, and while I have always missed those I love, only now do I know what “homesick” really means. Our simple surf cottage in remote West Bali has become...
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Ocean Sole: making art from trash
When you come across an old flipflop washed up on a beach, what do you see? A grungy old shoe? A piece of rubbish? Do you chortle as you point to a particularly battered one and joke, “hey honey,...
View ArticleTravels with an iPhone
Just before Mark and I travelled to India I splashed out on an iPhone 6S. Actually, I didn’t… “splash out” implies something frivolous. It was a painstakingly considered purchase because honestly, is...
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How to be a trash-less travel hero
For the past few months there’s been a blog post brewing inside my head. It starts like this: “The more I travel, the more I realise two things. One: people are inherently good, and kind and...
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City sanctuaries in Bangkok
Bangkok: a city that’s crazy beautiful. It’s a storm of colours and lights and signs and sounds; a clashing of elegant temples and looming skyscrapers; a collision of Buddhist grace and flashy...
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Can iPhone photos be used in a magazine?
“Is the quality of a photo taken on an iPhone 6S good enough to be printed in a glossy magazine?” I tried to stay cool after wildly typing that message to an art director friend. An hour before I’d...
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Take better photos with your phone
The latest high-resolution smartphones have ushered in a new era. Even professional photographers on assignments for leading magazines are starting to realise that there are moments when a handy,...
View ArticleWelcome to our treehouse
Over the past six months, life’s changed a fair bit for Mark and me: we’ve morphed from wandering writers who lived out of our kitbags, to writers who lived tentatively in a quirky, recycled...
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