The Worst Interview of My Life
As you may have read from the last post, I spent more than three weeks in tiny Guinea-Bissau during my Great West African Tour of 2012 (four months, five countries, two occupied territories – surely...
View ArticleMy Weekend with Senegalese Subsistence Farmers
“So how was Africa??” Ever since flying out of Senegal in May, not a week has gone by that I haven’t heard this question and soon been retelling my African roadtrip stories to some friend or...
View ArticleWeekly Wednesday Video: Korean cat cafe
I was poking around my external hard drive the other day when I realized that I have about a gazillion short bits of video footage just sitting in a folder. These are snippets I’ve shot on my travels...
View ArticleWeekly Wednesday Video: Speedboating in Nicaragua
As I promised last week, I’ve started a new Weekly Wednesday Video series and today just happens to be… Wednesday! Yay. This week’s video is from Nicaragua, where I spent six weeks this winter with my...
View ArticleYoung Professionals – the United Nations Needs You!
Are you young and ambitious? Have you always dreamed of working for the United Nations in exotic lands but just didn’t know how to go about scoring a job with the mighty international organization?...
View ArticleInspiration and desperation at the Social Good Summit and Global Citizen...
Last week was truly something else – I learned more than I ever dreamed possible about various problems currently affecting the world: extreme poverty, funky-sounding but terrible tropical diseases...
View ArticleWant to be a travel writer?
Are you an aspiring travel writer or would you just like to know what life is like when the whole world is your office? Click here to read the article I wrote about the ins and outs of travel writing...
View ArticleMy Guadeloupe e-book is finally DONE!
It’s official! The Quick Gwada Guide e-book is finished! After six weeks of hard full-time work and a bucketload of joy and exhaustion … It’s finally done!! Yayyyyy. If you are traveling to Guadeloupe...
View ArticleLife Beneath New York’s Sidewalks
Over the past four years Finnair’s in-flight magazine Blue Wings has been one of my main clients. I’ve written all kinds of articles for them, ranging from monthly travel news blurbs to longer...
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