Wandering/Wondering

Author: CBT

  • Malaysia & Australia (and a little bit of Istanbul)

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    Day 1 It’s about midnight by the time I land at Istanbul Airport, but thankfully, the hotel I had booked is in the airport. All my needs and worries are met as I check in to my tiny – but sleek and modern – room, get a bag of toiletries handed to me by the…

  • Update

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    I have run out of journeys and questions. But I am going out into the world to restock very soon. CBT

  • Why does Kigali have so much undeveloped land?

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    One of Kigali’s most pleasant features puzzled me. The city’s most prominent charm was the abundant greenery, and not just from the prominent tropical flowers that lined the streets, but also the frequent swathes of grass and trees dotted around its hills. These weren’t parks, they were simply patches of land without buildings. Gaping holes…

  • Rwanda

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    Day 1 It’s not an auspicious start when I struggle to find my way out of the airport. Thankfully, a helpful man with an assault rifle has pointed me in the right direction, so now I’m walking into Kigali. It strikes me, through the fog of travel-exhaustion, as I look out across the terracotta roofs…

  • How does racialisation work in Panama?

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    The concept of race is a strange thing. It has long been debunked as a pseudoscience, but has proven to have a long afterlife, with “racial identity” being a hot topic even in countries that don’t classify their citizens by “race” (the UK census notes people’s “ethnicity”, not “race”). Half of this is because the…