"the last time i saw you"

  Clockwise from top left: Rio de Janiero, Brazil; Bocas del Toro, Panama; Cali, Colombia; Machu Picchu, Peru; Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia; Winnipeg, Canada; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Flying Over Belize; middle photo,…

Popayan, Colombia That’s a photo of me and my new friend Pie, from Amsterdam. We met in Cali, although, after talking about our past travels, we realised we were also in Medellin…

In a way, travel relationships, whether they last for days or for years, start off just like any other relationship. Your eyes meet across a bar full of young and sun-tanned backpackers, you smile at each other over the noise of a street festival, you complain together about the heat or the slow Internet or how long you’ve been waiting for the bus. He’s from South Africa or Sweden, Turkey or Australia, but it doesn’t matter; he’s not from where you’re from.

Winnipeg, Canada I’ve often wondered where I’ll “settle down”. I put that phrase in quotations because I’m not sure that I’ll ever really settle; my dream life is a slightly nomadic one,…

It truly was one of the best years of my life – a year of travel (from January to November), a year of friendship, a year of prospects in love, a year…