by cjharris | | current affairs, life, travel
Cancelled flights, missed connections, airport chaos, and a 72 hour journey home Of course I knew that travelling to Europe would carry some risks. But as I breezed through my five-week holiday, I skimmed over news articles about airport chaos and considered myself...
by cjharris | | life, travel
When I visited Turkey with my mother 12 years ago, we parted at the train station in Istanbul — she was on her way to Athens and a flight back to Australia, I was headed for the Middle East, not knowing when I would see her again. When the Kurdish boy working in our...
by cjharris | | life, travel
A few days ago, I was telling a friend about the worst birthday of my life. The year I turned 23, I travelled alone to an oasis in Egypt. A local offered to drive me out to the desert which I really, really wanted to do. So I said yes. I then spent the evening in the...
by cjharris | | life, popular culture, travel, work, writing
Build your author platform, they said. Sign up to Instagram, they said. So I did – about six months ago. And I’m gonna be honest, I still don’t really have a clue what Instagram is for. As far as I can tell, there are now a few different types of Instagrammers...
by cjharris | | life, travel
When I was young(er), I was pretty reckless about my safety. I also had two beliefs: (1) that I should always do anything a man could and (2) that people were essentially good so nothing terrible would ever happen to me. And that’s how I came to be sleeping in...
by cjharris | | books, film, travel, writing
Dear Elizabeth Gilbert, You’re probably a lovely person but I just wanted to let you know that Eat, Pray, Love ruined everything. I’m glad you found yourself and your handsome Brazilian after what sounds like a painful divorce. I accept that millions of readers...
