The (deep fried) Texas State Fair
Three hours north of Austin, up the deathly straight tarmac of Highway 35, an even more lethal congestion of charming southerners slightly losing their grace awaited me, in the tight side streets of… Read More
Tag Archive: travel
The Best European Summer Festivals
The countdown to European summertime has begun, which means Festival season is so close you can pretty-much smell it. It’s the smell of unwashed awesomeness. However, because there are gazillions of amazing events to… Read More
Marc Janus connects in a different way
I met Madrid-based painter, Marc Janus, while travelling in Panama. Marc is the kind of person that inspires you to want to make yourself more interesting and to interact with people in a different… Read More
Olly Goes on a Taco Quest
Somethingyousaid.com’s Oliver Heath travels the world searching for the perfect taco. Then finds love at home in Sydney: There’s a tingle to tequila that feels like you’re drinking it with your spine.… Read More
A Place Where No Cars Go
Somethingyousaid.com’s Tenley Nordstrom learns the value of a machete: When I close my eyes and think of my happy place, I think of Bastimentos, Panama. I think of the sun dancing off of the… Read More
24 Hours in Ho Chi Minh City
Somethingyousaid.com headed to Ho Chi Minh City, just about managed to avoid being involved in numerous traffic accidents and achieved bugger-all sleep: I asked a friend who used to live in Vietnam “What’s Ho… Read More
Landscape/Displacement, by Isidore Tillers
Classical musician and writer, Isidore Tillers, makes her somethingyousaid.com debut by telling us how it feels to be an Australian shivering amid subzero temperatures in Germany: As I sit here and write, tiny… Read More
Getting Awkwardly Naked in Morocco
Jess O’Callaghan gets nekkid: I barely know how to handle myself in the changing room of a swimming pool in Australia, where women huddle against the wall and slip their underwear back on… Read More
In a Pickle: Street Food in Istanbul
Today, Farz Edraki makes her SYS debut by getting all in a pickle on the streets of Turkey: Fishermen on the pier unhook their daily catch from fishing lines; a family prepare to walk the… Read More
A Vegetarian Walks Into a Cockfight
Tenley Nordstrom is a vegetarian. She went to a cock fight. Here’s her story: Somehow I managed to score a studio apartment above what must be the only Irish pub in Nicaragua. The… Read More
Firing six bullets from a handgun
A Dutchman and three Australians borrow a car and go to a shooting range. It sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke. In some ways I wish it were. I have always… Read More
Stuff White People Like and a bit that they don’t
Harriet Cheney went to Newcastle for TiNA and Sound Summit: I hit the road later than I had hoped to, because I was writing questions for an interview. Luckily, that meant that I… Read More