Further to my previous blog - Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully, my travels continued last month into Vietnam where I spent a week spent tracing the pulse of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and the slow, resilient breath of its surrounding landscapes. The memory of it still lingers, as vivid as the city’s traffic at … Continue reading A Week Between Memory and Motion
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Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully
When I was younger, travel writing was all text. Long, unhurried accounts with a few photo plates lodged somewhere in the middle of the books, as if to rest the eyes. You travelled first through sentences, not pixels. Now, the world prefers images that flicker and vanish before the thought even forms. But standing amid … Continue reading Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully
Speed Cameras Miss the Real Danger: Behaviour
The news of New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) deploying mobile trailer cameras to hunt for speeders is bound to draw attention. They will catch the black-and-white of numbers, the digits on the dial, but one wonders whether justice is being done to the more complex contours of road danger. To be fair, speed … Continue reading Speed Cameras Miss the Real Danger: Behaviour