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My parents cluck their tongues. My fiancee rolls her eyes. Everyone else looks at me as though I’ve lost my mind. A few of them can understand why someone might run with the bulls once. But why someone would run
It takes a good long while to download anything on St Helena. A good long while and a pretty penny. A half hour of foot-dragging wi-fi at any one of the handful of hot spots in Jamestown, the island’s capital,
An international co-production about Ernest Hemingway’s life in Cuba has become the first full-length feature with a Hollywood cast and crew to be shot on the island since the 1959 revolution. Bob Yari’s Papa finished shooting in Havana last month
In 2012, Afghan journalist Mustafa Kazemi (@combatjourno) made global headlines when he live-tweeted a fire-fight between Afghan authorities and Taliban insurgents at a hotel outside Kabul. The method may not have been anything new, but its use by a war
When Spain’s first post-Francoist prime minister, Adolfo Suárez, died in March, I watched the footage coming out of Madrid with a great deal of interest. While I sat in a Pamplona pinxtos bar, more than thirty thousand mourners lined the
At first glance, Chris Meagher’s apartment in Sydney’s Double Bay looks like that of any retiree. Photos of children and grandchildren line the mantelpiece. Nostalgic knick-knacks from a life well lived are scattered around the sun-dappled living room. But something
In a media landscape that comprises a multitude of voices, following events across countries can be bewildering. It is often difficult to separate the voices that know what they’re talking about from those that merely like the sound of themselves.
On July 14, 2013, Jessica Escarlet, a 23-year-old from New South Wales, was gored in the chest by a Miura bull. Running one of the most dangerous sections of Pamplona’s famous encierro—the narrow, often-congested callejón, which leads from the streets into the