Category Archives: Travels
2020 New Year’s Conclusions!
New Year’s Resolutions & Message – 2020 Greetings People, Planet and Porcupines! A Happy Christmas and Merry New Year / Decade from Aotearoa New Zealand once again (before heading to China to kickstart 2020 with more global citizenship, sustainability and … Continue reading
2019 New Year Inclusions!
New Year’s Resolutions and Message – 2019 Hi Happy Humans for Prosperity and Purpose! A happy Christmas from Aotearoa New Zealand and a very merry New Year from Adelaide, Australia! A couple of lovely weeks in NZ with Serafina and … Continue reading
A Day on The Bike – an Analogy for Promoting the Global Goals
The 102km journey I took today on a cycling trip to activate South Australia with the Global Goals today I think is a great analogy and comparison to working towards the success of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development… Like … Continue reading
Birthday Count Up – with pics (2018)
Wow this was quite the process and I am glad I did when 40 and not 80. Such a beautiful time thinking back on the memories and people over the years – really amazing and I encourage anyone to … Continue reading
‘Hey White Man!’ – how I can empathise a little more with women…
‘Hey White Man!’ is something I hear a lot as I walk the streets of Liberia. I’m not unfamiliar with these kinds of calls from living a year in Ethiopia to the calls of ‘Ferenji!’, or Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania … Continue reading
That special kind of feeling… (travel & Africa)
There are actually a couple special kinds of feelings I want to look at in this one. They are both related to travel however. The first is the feeling I get of being in a new country. The pattern is … Continue reading
2017 New Year’s Evolutions!
New Year’s Resolutions and Message – 2017 Hi Troops of Passion and Peace! A happy Christmas and a very merry New Year once again 🙂 2016 was a banger in so many ways – a new confusing, wonderful and … Continue reading
Classrooms of the World
Recently I saw a blog on 7 amazing classrooms from around the world and went Wow! Then I added a photo of mine from a classroom I was presenting in this year in South Sudan. Then I thought about all … Continue reading
Central Asia Still Central To My Heart
Whist I should be talking about the incredible and diverse place that is Central Asia I’ve chosen instead to talk about me (as I do) and the impact this region had on me in the past and again today. If … Continue reading
The Irony of Ramadan in Dubai…
I’m not much of an Islamic scholar (understatement) but my thinking was that a component of Ramadan (the Islamic discipline of fasting during daylight hours for a lunar month) was to give you thoughts, perspectives and raise empathy towards the … Continue reading
