One thing that’s often beneficial of coming from a former British Colony that was established fairly close to… well, nothing… is that a large amount of my friends from home are now spread across the globe. You could say that Australia’s isolation has given us a knack for not just travelling, but for travelling for [...]

While I am absolutely loving Berlin, I haven’t shied away from the fact that a large part of wanting to live in such a central part of Europe was to experience other parts of this region. “Escapes From Berlin” is a new segment to BerlinOrBust.com, showcasing the places I visit while basing myself from here – [...]

If there’s anything that makes me froth at the mouth with excitement it’s hearing about ingenious start-ups that are leveraging market opportunities to provide customers with a high quality product or service. It’s no secret that Berlin is fast becoming one of the leading cities for attracting innovative start-ups, so no surprises that I was [...]

Apparently Berlin wasn’t quite ready to bring in the spring. While spending most of my first week in Berlin indoors at the “Messe Berlin” exhibition centre for ITB and hearing everyone that week speak of the weather only getting better, it came as a surprise when a cold snap came over Berlin for one last [...]

It was a fitting moment of serendipity. Within a few hours of landing in Berlin, I found myself on the U-Bahn heading towards Warschauer Straße Station to meet up with my friend Nina. We were on our way to partake in the public protest against a recent attempt to remove a section of the remaining [...]

Thats right, my feet are firmly set on German soil! A hellish 27 hours of travel has come to an end and Im now nestled comfortably on the couch at Yvonne’s apartment… As my flight from Doha began to make its decent, my excitement was given a swift kick to its goolies when the pilot [...]

Thailand doing what they do best and putting a serious subject into an awkward scenario. I’m currently using a layover in Thailand to visit my old stomping grounds of Chiang Mai and happened to come across old “Ronald McHitler” while getting some video footage from the weekend Walking Markets. Just another angry red-head I guess… [...]

Last year, while preparing to move to Chiang Mai, Thailand, my research had me stumble across an article about the launching of the crowd sourced flight website FlightFox. The article was particularly highlighting that the websites creators (both former Chiang Mai “digital nomads”, a title I was in the process of pursuing myself) had just [...]