Becoming a fighter pilot could be a whole lot easier for this and the next generation of aspiring aces and it could all be down to the endless notifications and multiscreen lifestyles adopted worldwide.
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By design, travellers are surrounded by total strangers.
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What compels someone of sound mind to throw themselves out of perfectly serviceable aeroplanes, dive headfirst in the abyss from a rickety bridge, or decide that jumping into the sea to share the water with a bloodthirsty shark is a good idea?
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The best way to explain what Grit Girls UAE is all about is to tell the story of my introduction into the group and what it did for me. I came across the community a few months ago and it reignited a passion for my favourite thing to do in the world—riding dirt bikes.
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The atmosphere on Mars is mostly carbon dioxide, the planetary surface is too cold to sustain human life, and the gravity there is just 38 percent of Earth’s. And yet, life on Mars has fascinated and inspired people around the world seemingly since it first occurred to us we could leave Earth behind.
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‘Travel is the only thing you spend money on that makes you richer.’ Ummmm…
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That feeling you get when your desire to see the world turns to a yearning and physical ache has a name.
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It may be a sprawling city of soaring skyscrapers and pearlescent mosques, tiptoeing further into the dunes like some ironic human equivalent of desertification, but it’s more than a buzzing metropolis in a sandpit: it’s home.
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Cape Town, and South Africa in general has a complicated history marred with racial prejudice and inequality which means many have preconceived ideas about this city before they have ever set foot there. And yet, when explored, anyone can discover little hidden gems tucked away within its walls, waiting to be found, and dismiss any biased opinion.
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Hiroshima is a city laden with scars: powerful remnants of a violent past, woven into its durable fabric.
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There is something tantalising about the great beyond, the distant lands, the final frontier.
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My daughter has emigrated, moved to another country far away from me – 3482 miles away according to a certain ‘stalker app’. And yet I can’t complain (much) because I did exactly the same to my mum and she did the same to her mum.
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