Swart Donkey

Joint decision-making is hard. Particularly in many cases where two careers paths full of stakes in the ground are in competition. One advan...

No longer needing to apply for leave, my first act of independence post-work was to head off to Australia and New Zealand for two and a half...

When I was 19, I went to Europe for the first time. I was in the UK for 18 months before that working, an d did my traveling in one big bin...

The first time I left South Africa was when I was 18. My standard holiday was to Johannesburg , either towards or welcoming my Vaalie cous...

The urban area of São Paulo has a population of 36.8 million people. When Pedro Álvares Cabra of Portugal came to Brazil in 1500, th...

Two alternative methods of forming a democracy are  Proportional Representation and First-Past-The-Post . The advantage of Proportional Re...

I want to start by taking issue with the tendency of dominant (i.e. white, western and mostly English) cultures to demand assimilation from...

When I arrived in my hostel at the port of Piraeus in Athens, my host asked me where I was from, ' What is your origin? ' . On hear...

I have spent a lot of time recently thinking about how to build communities. I am reading ' Sapiens ' in which it talks about the C...

Kenya When many people think of Kenya, they think of safaris, the big five, wildebeest migrations, the snowcapped Mount Kenya, and...

Lithuania In 1990, one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and following 50 years of occupation by first Nazi Germany and then...

Morocco Morocco is across the straights of Gibraltar from Spain. It is one of three countries to have both an Atlantic and Medi...

Urbanisation We know that 200 years ago, only 12% of the world's population could read. We know there were less than 1 Billion pe...

Hamburg during the day Second largest city in Germany. Harbour town with one of the most popular miles in the world: the Reeperbahn -...

I arrived with the movie Entrapment in my mind (glittering Petronas Towers etc). However, travelling by train through Sepang, Cyberjaya...

100 words ? To write about a place and what it means to you? Naturally, my mind went to a pass in the Black Cuillin on the Isle of Skye ove...

Apart from the majestic Victoria Falls and various mountains that offer spectacular views, there is still one more thing I admire about...

Delamere Forest A well-kept secret in the north west of England. It’s not all lush green farmland, pretty villages, historic Chester...

Sunny beaches and blue Ocean. Don’t forget the factor 50 lotion. Dolphins swimming, fish and chips Holidays and great road trips ...

I arrived in Kigali in 2003, nine years after the genocide, and was immediately struck by the beauty and friendliness of the place . The...