It’s the 6th of February 2025, and I’m scuba diving in the Sulu Sea in the western Philippines off an island called Busuanga.   The...

I’m looking for endangered orangutans in northern Sumatra. An imagined rainforest floats into my head — a carpet of exotic plants in...

I can’t sleep. It’s 6:15 in Raja Ampat, West Papua, far to the east of Indonesia, somewhere above the center of Australia. There are 5...

A 2-hour boatride from Sorong, capital of the province of West Papua, Indonesia and we arrive in the Dampier Strait under a domed...

Feel complete, all-enveloping, suffocating darkness. Your eyes are open… but are they? Without light, your sense of balance and space...

In a blue ocean far, far away… lies Kri Island. Legendary in the world of scuba diving, in 2012 an expert spotted 374 species of fish in...

27th July 2017 - I’m on a boat off the coast of Ishigaki Island, part of the Yaeyama shoto archipelago, in the far, far south of tropical...

I’m on a windswept hill in north-eastern Manipur with three fellow trekkers. It’s January, cold, and a brilliant sun is high in a...

Lunchtime starts at 10:00 AM in Manipur. I haven’t quite digested that people begin their day at 5 AM here. Two friends and I are pulling...

I arrive at Kochi’s new paint-whiffed aerodrome. The three-hour drive up to Vagamon in the Western Ghats spills sensory overloads in the...

Stumbling out of a darkened cottage: a few feet away, an infinity pool, blissfully calm in the morning light, overflows to meet a sea of...

Sitting at a wooden table on a shady verandah in Ubud, Bali, hot buttery sunshine ducks under the tile-roof to slather our naked feet in...

I’m nibbling dark vegan chocolate, trying to stitch Seminyak in words, dreaming together it’s narrow, ribboned streets, crisscrossed by...

I’m trying to put a finger on my thoughts for 2023. It’s been everything. This year I travelled to 3 new countries. Morocco in a van...

Somewhere at the edge of the world, right where the globe dips down towards Antarctica, two-days by ship from South America, lie the...

Wisps of flossy clouds are collecting in the brilliant azure of another Antarctic summer day. We’ve had carnival weather of glorious...

Sheets spill like a snowy landscape over stray pillows and outstretched legs, like a vast rolling tundra in the chill of the...

My roommate on the Ocean Endeavour has a weak bladder and a weaker sense of propriety. Thanks to him I’ve been up since 5:30 AM. The 27th...

The Antarctic air is cold, sharp and clean. I descend the ramp from the Ocean Endeavour and jump over the Zodiac’s pontoon, wondering...