Featured Stories of the Week

What you MUST do if you go to France

I’d just checked into a fancy hotel in Paris. I walked into the ensuite, and there, floating in the toilet bowl was… well, I don’t know how to say this in French… but someone had made a faux pas.

I hit the button to flush it but nothing happened. Looking for help, I walked out into the hall and waved at a passing maid.

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Top Bunk Bottom Bunk

Part of the fun of travelling is meeting new people, and what better way to do so than in a mixed dorm? Unfortunately, what with not being able to vote people in an out of your dorm big brother style you pretty much have to deal with what, or who, you are given.

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My Worst Ever New Year’s Eve

It was twelve years ago.

In the month before, I’d broken up with my second serious girlfriend.

In the week before, I’d been involved in a team kayak race that finished on NYE in Swan Hill.

At 9pm on NYE I got chatting to a girl in a pub. My teammates left. I stayed. Then the girl left. Alone.

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