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A Thai boat race team training

Photography School Asia

Photography School Asia offers you a unique opportunity to study with British photojournalist Jonathan Taylor, with courses, classes and tours in Bangkok, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

Moai - Easter Island's mysterious statues of heads

Easter Island: a hiking guide

“Ask me which Pacific island has the most to offer hikers and I’ll probably answer Easter Island. Here, on an island 11km (seven miles) wide and 23km (14 miles) long, you’ll find nearly a thousand ancient Polynesian statues strewn along a powerfully beautiful coastline or littering the slopes of an extinct volcano.” David Stanley pulls on his boots and straps on his daypack…

Writing love letters to life

“If you are so lucky as to be a scrapbooker, you take your memories with you as you leave home, and you approach each new adventure with new appreciation because at the very least it may yield the best scrapbook page (or layout) of your life.” Joanna Campbell Slan explains how keeping a scrapbook can bring new joys and consolations to expat life.

Sydney Morris Men

So what do you know about Morris Men? “They strike up the Devil’s dance withall: then martch this heathen company…their pypers pyping… their belles jyngling, their…