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Meal Sharing: The intersection of food and travel
The Wanderer examines Meal Sharing, an innovative concept bringing together communities and traditions through food. One of the hallmarks of the journey is the constant exchange of cultures that occurs when you go to a new place, no matter how close to home. Meeting new people and learning new things: this is travel. Food is a ...
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Snowed Out in Offa’s Dyke
Max Stephenson Long in the wilderness of Wales… Windswept snow adorned the rough, stubble grass all around us, as we struggled against the wind to cross the Hergest Ridge. Before us, snow swept down incessantly in thick bouts, occasionally interceded by spells of sunshine which gave us a false sense of dawning warmth that never ...
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Running Wild in the West
Laura French on the Western frontier of America… I’d only ever seen the Wild West in badly made films from the 1950s, though I tended to avoid them, not wanting them to ruin my childhood dream; because, growing up, it was my dream. I wanted to travel, to see the States, the Wild West, and ...
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Discoveries In the “Other Iraq”
Selali Fiamanya on travelling through Iraqi Kurdistan… At the end of the first night my travelling buddy Kyro and I were in high spirits: we had visited a local bazaar and the holy town of an old and tiny religion, gone hill-walking, and braved the biggest rollercoaster the city’s theme park had to offer. I ...
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In Whose Footsteps…?
Fred Lazell relays his encounters in the Solomon Islands… I was high in the mountains in the jungle-clad interior of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands –-now of Will and Kate fame– but previously little-known other than as the scene of ferocious guerilla warfare between the USA and Japanese in World War II. In this remote ...
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Scenes From Burning Man
Grace Liew on Burning Man… The temptation is simply to let the pictures speak for themselves. The rest—how, why—matters very little. Here is a fire mutant car, a giant Victorian antique tricycle rigged with gasoline, belching a massive fireball out of its minaret chute into the dark skies; And that? That is the Mad Max ...
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Acoustic India
Last year, we introduced you to Gus and Delphi and their travels through Ghana and Burkina Faso with a battered acoustic guitar and a cheap camcorder. Over the summer, they traversed Northern India, and produced a follow up series of videos that we are proud to showcase: The Wild by TroTro Window was filmed in ...
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Along The Other Nile – The Western Oases
Sebastian Lennox on the road from Cairo to Assyut… “And God said to the water come back to your land”, declared Said triumphantly. Proof, I am told, that it was somewhere along the belt of springs we now call the Western Desert Oases that Noah’s Ark finally hit landfall. “Here the water sleeps just ...
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Burma
This photo-essay gives us a rare glimpse into a largely unknown country… All photos are Copyright @ The Wanderer