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Iceland Stories from the Sky

Getting High in Iceland

By on April 12, 2014

I have made some amazing friends in my travels and sometimes I feel spoilt rotten for having such amazing people in my life. It is hard to imagine what…


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Greece

Sunny, Single Days in Santorini

By on April 12, 2014

Who says that going to Santorini in October is a bad idea? Well I’ll admit it was risky. With winter rapidly approaching and tourists heading home, a spontaneous trip…


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Ukraine

Radioactive Roadtrip: Keeping Calm in Chernobyl

By on April 11, 2014

 
It was the early hours of April 26th, 1986. The small city of Pripyat situated in what was then the Soviet Union had switched off their nuclear-power-run bedroom lights…


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Romania

I live in a Communist Gypsy City

By on February 9, 2014

More often than not when my friends back home in Adelaide discover that I am temporarily calling Bucharest home I am confronted with a recurring question: “Where’s that?”  A…


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Romania

Avoiding prostitutes, gypsies and stray-dogs: Hitchhiking out of Bucharest

By on January 24, 2014

Hitchhiking: Allowing yourself to get in a vehicle with potential axe murderers, rapists and creeps. Not to mention the possibility of being kidnapped…