Inspiring women
While walking to work the other day, my mind was flickering round in its usual disorganised state when my thoughts finally settled on International Women’s Day. I began to think of the origins of it and how widely acknowledged it is and to what extent it is celebrated. Do all countries celebrate it for the [...]
The quarter life crisis in 2013
Another year has rolled by and yet again resolutions have been made all around the world. From wild claims of not eating chocolate for a whole year to attempts at not drinking for a month, aspirations to learn a new language, or time to focus on a relationship or work issue, the statements have come [...]
When games become reality
Remember when you were eight years old? You had such few worries in your world and and even those were more often than not forgotten when something easily distracted you. You would play ‘dress up’ with your friends, put on your Mum’s heels and weigh yourself down in jewellery and awfully applied makeup. This is [...]
Preserving the countryside
Travel and food are two of my biggest passions, without a doubt. When they are combined, it’s a match in heaven. Sampling local treats and regarded delicacies absolutely adds to experiencing different cultures and traditions. Whether it be New York’s best pizza slice or guinea pig in Ecuador, in my opinion there is nothing in [...]
Learning to Love…Olympic Style
Was it just me or did anyone else get the feeling they’d been unceremoniously dumped by the Olympics? I mean, there we were having a great time together, laughing and drinking, cheering, crying, making new friends, last check-in before sleep, first check-in as soon as we woke…you know, the usual relationship things. And then BOOM [...]
Olympic Fever!
LONDON IS ALIVE! One of the busiest, loudest most multicultural cities in the world is now host to the world’s largest sporting event, and my GOD do we know it! Us Brits have always had a pretty good idea as to how to throw a good party, and this time round is no different. Reading [...]
Voluntourism: sustainable vacationing.
A modern day conundrum: You want to go on holiday, but you feel bad for just lazing around for a week and you are really just harming the environment with your carbon footprint….but you reeeeally want a holiday. What do you do? Become a Volutourist. It’s a surprisingly short time ago that volunteering became so [...]
Volunteering: Who, Why and Where
Volunteering is confusing. There is no doubt about that! As mentioned in my previous article, I hope to detangle the web of a million questions you ask yourself when tackling the idea of volunteering. There are so many factors you need to consider when thinking about it: your lifestyle, culture, age, marital status, any skills [...]
Turkey Din Din with all the Trimmings
You will have to forgive my total admittance of ignorance when I say that up until a couple of years ago there were a couple of things I didn’t know about Thanksgiving in Canada. 1-They even had a Thanksgiving, and 2-what they were thankful for. Having grown up always hearing about American Thanksgiving and the [...]
The Complicated World of Volunteering
In one of the ongoing arguments across numerous boards of thought, volunteering is always going to produce mixed responses of opinion. Is it a good thing, or can it destroy a community? Completing my school education at the age of 18, it wasn’t even a question on my mind…I would be taking on England’s infamous [...]
A traveler all her life, Claudia was born in Germany and raised in England. She regularly visited various countries around Europe and the Americas, but it was when she was 18 that she really discovered her own overwhelming lust for travel. As soon as she finished school, she and two girlfriends backpacked through Italy, Southern France and Spain. Five months later she was back on a plane for a two-week sailing holiday in the Caribbean and a week after returning from that she was on another plane bound for Australia, where she traveled for three months, before going to teach English in Ecuador for four months. From there, she studied at university in England, traveled to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, and then headed to Canada on a work visa, where she is today. This summer, Claudia is working on a tourist cruise boat in Ottawa…yet constantly feels Asia calling her back. Try to keep track of where she goes- or just look up in the sky, where she’s most likely bound for somewhere new!