Now in 2017, there are upwards of 100,000 people on the verge of immediate starvation in South Sudan. Millions more from northern Nigeria to Yemen are surviving in such precarity…

It is quite possible I have now found my favourite (very) large city. Seoul is huge, lively, interesting, extremely friendly, reasonably affordable and easy to get around. We really only…

The train route between the two capitals. My photo is a little artsy, but factual. The border is entirely barricaded and closed. On my very first visit to the Korean…

Enjoying a morning bath Honestly, seeing these monkeys has long been the single biggest reason I have wanted to visit Japan. I really thought they were up on Hokkaido –…

Dotted among the modern, functional architecture of Sapporo are the tired, wooden structures endemic to northern communities Japan’s Northern Island of Hokkaido is colder and much snowier than on parts…

A replica of the bomb dropped over Hiroshima At 8:15 AM, August 6, 1945, the militarized southern Japanese city of Hiroshima was utterly destroyed by the first ever atomic bomb…

It has been a long time since I have visited a place I have never before been. The Land of the Rising Sun is a place I have wanted to…

These iconic Moai were toppled and then further destroyed by a Tsunami triggered by the 1960 earthquake in southern Chile (rebuilt with Japanese money) Two mysterious Moai statues on the…

Arriving in The Falklands:- After 48 hours at sea and a very calm Drake Passage, we arrived at Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands. Made up of a total of…

Give Peace a Change Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. —Albert Einstein The world has become slightly less peaceful over the last year,…