
knew Australia would be full of highly poisonous creepy crawlies, but I didn’t expect to run into one of the biggest spiders of my life in the window of a building in downtown Brisbane (on my first full day in the country no less).

ver dream of wandering through Kyrgyzstan, eating laghman noodles for dinner and drinking kumiz with the nomadic locals while sleeping in a yurt? Most people haven’t. Actually, the predominant response I get when I mention to anyone that I have spent time in the country is the fact that they have never even heard of [...]