Author: Claire

  • There’s a washing machine in my shower

    But for now, this is home – many, many miles and a world of difference away from a small town in the Eastern Cape where I grew up.

  • Journey to a place far, far away

    Daegu was the end of a rather long and tiring, but largely hassle-free trip to Korea. I’m now here and looking forward to a good long sleep in a non-moving bed – with no midnight stops in the Middle East to change planes

  • PANIC!

    Perhaps not complete panic but something vaguely resembling it. Perfectly justifiable panic, probably. I am told by those who know far better than I that panic at this stage is perfectly normal. So I’m writing it down in the interests of accurately representing the experience of travel. Unless some last-minute thing goes wrong – which…