Category Archives: Camping

Why Tagging is the Lowest Form of Wit

green travel tips

Wandering the streets of Rhodes’ extraordinary medieval city, I am confronted by an old nemesis; the tagger. When you spray your name across the trains, or bridges or my neighbor’s garage, I am (frankly) indifferent. But I find that there's nothing like a carelessly scrawled ‘Neville woz here’ on places of beauty, works of art or historical treasures to really get my goat .

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Cherrapunji’s Root Bridges

Save the planet

What's the best way to build an eco-friendly bridge that doesn't damage the environment? Well you grow it silly! In Southern India, in the hills of Khasi and Jaintia, a special Indian Rubber tree proliferates. Luckily for local, these rubber tree's have roots of steel.

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Why ‘Travel Light’ Should be your Life Motto

Random acts of Kindness

We hear this motto a lot, ‘Travel Light, Pack Light, Live Light’ and I agree that what we learn on the road can be an adage for how to live our lives. Here are 5 things I’ve learned about how a nomad’s mindset can serve us well in our everyday.

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