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New York is no longer the city of opportunity. Sydney is.

As his prime ministerial car arrived outside the UN in New York City this week, the last thing on Anthony Albanese’s mind was probably the first thing…

Sep 26 • 

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Boys of Berlin, Munich’s Mount Wank and the glorious tack of Gran Canaria

It’s almost 8am and I’m descending a set of steep steps out of Berlin’s sunshine, down into the pits of a brutalist building which hosts the weirdest…

Sep 10 • 

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July 2025

I lived in Buenos Aires for 18 months. Here’s what it can teach other cities

It’s 2am on a balmy Wednesday and I’m on a street named after Argentina’s most famous author – Jorge Luis Borges – fittingly, in a bookstore.

Jul 17 • 

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Goodbye South America!

Snippets from my final few moments after almost two years of living in South America

Jul 2 • 

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June 2025

 Doing the once unthinkable: visiting a South American shantytown alone at night

Narco battlegrounds have become dance-floors in Colombia’s most famous barrio

Jun 10 • 

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One month until my two-year South America adventure ends

On the evening of Wednesday 3 July, I’ll jump in an Uber which’ll ascend the steep hills blanketed with buildings in Medellín, until those home-covered…

Jun 2 • 

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May 2025

In Colombia, they say ‘que gonorrea’ for ‘how crap!’

Well, I’m writing this from a residential Spanish school in Medellin, Colombia, where I’ve been living for almost a month now.

May 21 • 

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My first 36 ish hours in Medellin - part 1

The first thing I notice is trees.

May 1 • 

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April 2025

Goodbye Argentina

Two years ago, I couldn’t speak a word of Spanish beyond Mi Chico Latino.

Apr 10 • 

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January 2025

After 18 months in Buenos Aires, I’m gonna move to Colombia

But I have 3 months left in Argentina first!

Jan 16 • 

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September 2024

Then I realised something very unexpected…

The surprising thing that caught me off guard

Sep 23, 2024 • 

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I was mountain biking down a volcano in Peru. Then, disaster struck

TL;DR: I broke my wrist and was told I’d need surgery costing $7,500 within 15 days. My travel insurance refused to pay. Read on for what happened next!

Sep 4, 2024 • 

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