The Brink of Something Else www.brinkofsomethingelse.com Below If you plan to attend the celebrations of the Laotian New Year, be ready to get wet. I celebrated with a local family and development worker – eating, drinking and pouring water over friends, acquaintances and unwary passers-by.
Camden Luxford
A continually restless Australian, currently based in Peru “That life-quickening atmosphere of a busy railway station, where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else.” I’ve never been able to express in words what I love about travel, until I read that Nabokov quote. It’s the sense of continual discovery, of something unknown and unexpected waiting around the next corner. It’s the thrusting chaos of a foreign city where nobody knows me. That ‘something else’ for me right now is getting comfortable in Cusco; I’m opening a hostel, writing and exploring every corner of my adopted home, Peru. Hometowns: Brisbane, Australia; Cusco, Peru
Right I’m obsessed with food. All food, from all over the world; the tastes, smells and textures of each country. The street stalls of Mexico were an unforgettable highlight of that trip. Left The Andean festival of Qoyllur Rit’i, celebrated in late May, sees community groups, musicians and dancers making a pilgrimage to 4,700 m above sea level, to pay homage to Christ and the Andean mountain deities, Apus, in a curious blend of traditions.
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