SPAIN | Friday, 20 Apr 2012 | Views [573]
I slip back under my cotton sheets, listen to raindrops dance on the roof. The perfect Sunday. It would be if he was here, but I’m alone with this storm that has stolen the light, stolen my day, blanketed my apartment in melancholy grey. It’s too silent.... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Friday, 20 Apr 2012 | Views [405]
Why Travel? Even when I hate it, I love it. I dreaded my last trip from Seoul to Aberdeen, because the flight was with Russia's economy airline Aeroflot. It had been a year since I was last home and I was tired of travelling, new faces and new places, ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 20 Apr 2012 | Views [537] | Scholarship Entry
As I chased childhood memories of a white sandy cove on Scotland's west coast, a girl of around seven danced in the waves beside me on the beach. Flapping her arms with a pure wide smile, she looked as swell as a gull in the March sun. As I continued ... Read more >
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GREECE | Friday, 25 Mar 2011 | Views [808]
The afternoon is fading as I wander through Corfu town’s tired alleyways. Past shop owners puffing on cigarettes and hot air, the shelves behind them crumbling with unwanted souvenirs. And restless in a country where every day feels like Sunday, we sail ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Thursday, 24 Mar 2011 | Views [812] | Scholarship Entry
Seoul, I wasn't sure when I first saw you. There can be a sexiness to skyscrapers, but yours are too often tired blasts of Soviet-style concrete that choke the streets and cut out the sun. Look again and down at street level you are the most colourful, ... Read more >
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