Within minutes of arriving at Didim’s inaugural camel wrestling festival the fists started flying. Anyone familiar with wrestling will know that a wrestler may not hit their opponent with a closed fist and camels don’t have fists anyway.
With food and culture making up such a large part of Kristin Larson’s blog, she could have picked few better places to write than from the seven hills of Istanbul.
With her husband Noah Edelblum and daughter Lila, Leigh Shulman shrugged off her old life in New York to travel Europe, the US, Central and South America. Advocates of slow travel their pace ground to a halt when they settled in the Argentine city of Salta and founded an art and education NGO.
Marlo Perry, grew up in Australia but has spent most of her life working and travelling around the world. After stints as a tour guide in Asia and South America, she lived in Buenos Aires.
Alyson from Wales met Australian James while on holiday in Egypt. After moving in together in London they travelled the world, had a D and a Boo, and have since set off on their second round the world trip – this time with the whole family in tow. In between they lived in Port Douglas.
J M Cressman and his girlfriend were lured to the Sunshine Coast by the many reciprocal agreements between Australia and Canada. Already well versed in sports and activities from his studies and work in Canada, he enjoys the outdoor life in his new Queensland home.
A travel writer and artist, Sarah Shaw was enjoying her last remaining months as an expat in South Korea when we spoke to her. She’s originally from Maine, but has lived on four different continents, and spends her days getting lost, petting stray cats and embarrassing herself in foreign languages.
Brandon and Kelsey are a teacher-artist duo travelling the world. They lived and played in South Korea, making short monthly documentaries about their lives and travels.
If you have spent the past week talking English but paying for your meals and accommodation, then I’m afraid to say you are doing something wrong. There are places in this world where we can do what we do all day anyway and people will feed us and give us a free bed to sleep in.