No matter which country or culture we visit, everyone shares a bodily structure that makes us fundamentally human. From the moment we are born, we instinctively reach out into the world and…
When I told friends and family that I was spending a month in Thailand learning Muay Thai kickboxing, their reactions varied from mild confusion (“You’re doing what?”) to downright…
In search of a simple, traditional Christmas, Michael Hooper crosses the planet to the 57th parallel, drawing uncomfortably close to the Arctic Circle, Santa Claus Village, frostbite and the…
Over millennia, fire and fumes have belched destruction from the navel of the Earth, while her boundless sea has nurtured but also inundated cities of elegance and luxury. To walk among the…
Multicultural and forward-looking, Auckland is an established city that is still emerging. With a strong sense of the past embedded in the landscape, its rich cultural tapestry reflects…
The giant creature rolls to one side and slowly lifts its tail, pain in its eyes. It gasps for air and finally falls back onto the deck. The morning fitness class at sea is demanding.
It’s time to hang out by the Danube River on Óbudai-sziget Island, home of the namesake festival in Budapest, Hungary. The leafy, 108-hectare destination north of Budapest city…
What began in 1977 as a clever ploy to attract tourists to the city during the summer season has now become one of the highlights of Australia’s cultural calendar. The annual Sydney…
What makes us human? The quality that separates us from all other creatures ─ that is irrefutably, uniquely ‘human’ ─ is language. Language is exquisite in its properties and its…
Once a shimmering, chimerical facet of the ‘one per cent’ lifestyle, plastic surgery-related tourism has opened the gates for the masses into a new world of physical transformation.
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