Poling the Planet – James Bayliss-Smith punting on the Yulong River in Southern China

Poling the Planet - James Bayliss-Smith punting on the Yulong River in Southern China

Now, more than ever, we travel. We pack our suitcases, make sure we haven’t forgotten the sunscreen, stick our passport in our back pocket and head for the door. But so often we take our own little world with us. Working all year round for those precious couple of weeks in the sun, we barely leave the poolside at the hotel where a scrambled egg breakfast is a must and all the other guests speak with the same “normal” accent as we do. What, I ask

Monday, June 1st, 2009