There is a particular mood to the road home on a Friday evening. The week has spent itself. People are thinking about dinner, children, groceries, a glass of something, perhaps nothing more ambitious than removing their shoes. The city is still moving, but its mind has already gone home. Then the traffic stops. At about … Continue reading Wellington Traffic Chaos
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A Week Between Memory and Motion
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
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
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