Where the peaches grow
Date: 6 June Location: waiting for my southern breakfast with ‘grits’, Highland Bakery, Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia. Notable sightings: the famous Peachtree Street. I’d remarked to our Liberian cab driver in […]
We could not be more whitebread right now
Date: 4 June Location: on the Megabus bus from Nashville to Atlanta. Notable sightings: duelling pianos, Smashville (the home of the Nashville Predators and my new favourite word), the wrong […]
Leather & rhinestones, live from Music City
Date: 4 June Location: the couch, Nashville Downtown Hostel, Music City, Tennessee. Notable sightings: country music; the pre-CMA Fest buzz. When we were initially sketching out our US roadtrip (using […]
The Lone Star state, sunshine and flint
Date: 1 June. It’s summer y’all. Location: heaven, Barton’s Creek Greenbelt, Austin, Texas. Notable sightings: University of Texas, great tacos from Torchy’s Tacos. My lack of cowboy boots was becoming […]
I say “hey y’all” and “yee-haw”
Date: 30 May Location: the Hilton, Houston. Notable sightings: the Lone Star State, cowboys, line dancing. After the a Hurricanes we felt much like Dorothy’s house looked after the tornado. […]
The pros and cons of rum
Date: 29 May Location: the balcony, out of the heavy southern rain, Inn On Ursulines, New Orleans Notable sightings: the a French Quarter, Hurricanes, beignet and bad coffee, the Lalaurie […]
Hot Child In The City
Date: Hard to say. Still 27 May, I suppose. Location: seat 26G (aisle), over the Pacific Ocean just about to cross the International Date Line, Japanese Airlines/American Airlines flight from […]
Umami: the fifth taste
Date: 27 May Location: 4th floor, Shibuya Station, Tokyo, waiting for the Narita Express train. Would love to sit down on my backpack but fear the silent censure of the […]
“Why do they switch the r’s and l’s here?” “I don’t know. My fax said ‘have a good fright’.”
Date: 26 May Location: Scramble cafe, the biggest scramble crossing the world, Shibuya, Tokyo. Notable sightings: Meiji Shrine, Harajuku, Shibuya, a shower toilet. Pretty early on it became apparent to […]
Monsoon and mountains; lotus buds and laundry; sadus, sweat and sweet tea
Date: 24 May Location: Somewhere over Thailand, seat 23A (window — view out of Nepal so required), Malaysian Airlines flight from Kathmandu to KL. Notable sightings: the last day on […]
An unsettlingly big place 