Sometimes you hear about a place or see a photo of it and you know it’s calling your name. I had that with Barcelona, Berlin, the forests of Brazil, and most recently, Slovenia. It was a country I’d never considered. I’d barely heard its name until a couple of years ago when Never Ending Voyage … Read more
In a month’s time I’m starting something new – the meeting of two streams that I’ve dipped in an out of over the past 12 years. That first stream is yoga, a practice I first met when I was a student in London and I took my first yoga class with a characteristically stern Iyengar … Read more
We saved Berlin for years, keeping it in our pocket as a place we knew we’d love to spend time. The expectations built up, and by the time we finally made it, we were somewhat afraid the city may not live up to the stories that had drawn us. Would it be the laidback, arty … Read more
The pace of a city shapes it. Rio rotates to the rhythms of samba, Rome struts, and Sydney saunters. This week I returned to London, a city that races through its days. Any visitor who has ever been here and made the mistake of standing on the left of an escalator will have experienced the … Read more
We recently went to an awesomely psychedelic light festival in Italy called Notte delle Luci in Scorrano. We’ve shared some photos from the event itself and we also made our first Bridges and Balloons video about the festival. As it’s a nighttime festival, here we have some suggestions for things you might like to do in Puglia during … Read more
Remember the psychedelic festival of lights we went to in Italy last year? Well, it was so visually stunning that it demanded to be put on film, so that’s exactly what we did. We hope you like it! And the credit most certainly goes to Steve (I mainly just had to smile, spin, and guard the … Read more
Carrying on with our guest post series where writers offer their thoughts on living the life you want to, not the one you think you should. Introducing Gigi Griffis… Five years ago, I was doing exactly what a good born-and-raised American girl is supposed to do. I had a prestigious job as the lead copywriter … Read more
We were surrounded by naked people – something that’s come to be expected on sunny German days in the wilderness. We’ve moved past the red-faced, eyes-darting discomfort that our English heritage provides and have come to appreciate this natural abandon. But not today, it seemed. We’d come to Berlin’s forest, the Grunewald, for a picnic. … Read more
Last week I shared some of my Singapore highlights, but perhaps the thing that surprised me most was how colourful the city is. I had expected the metallic greys of cityscape but instead found a warren of charming colour. Here are some of my photos of the city’s colourful scenes. It’s a city that photographers … Read more
I didn’t expect to like Singapore. My mind had filed it somewhere alongside Dubai as nothing more than a business metropolis with strict laws and uncomfortable segregation. When I won a flight there, if I’m honest, my mind was more focused on where else to visit in the region rather than exploring the city itself. … Read more