Marja Kooreman | Journalist & Correspondent
also known as Sitara Morgenster | Using my head to write from the heart
Marja Kooreman | Journalist & Correspondent
also known as Sitara Morgenster | Using my head to write from the heart
The toilet is outside. Not far from the house, but nonetheless. The door is always open. It’s a standard toilet in that you sit on a white ceramic bowl, and it’s flushed with water dripped into the cistern from one of the rainwater tanks. The sewerage is transported to a large septic tank deep down …
‘St Kilda in sight!’ Kees calls out, his head around the cabin door. His glowing face makes me jump up and grab my shoes, ignoring my nausea. Despite a calm sea I feel rather queasy. Last night, the skipper told us the ocean was as smooth as it could be. This was terrific news. St …
Iceland’s magnificent great walk from Landmannalaugar to Skógar via Þorsmörk, the Laugavegur Trek, is one of the most spectacular long-distance hikes in the world. The remote trail crosses lava, moss and escaping steam, hills of rhyolite and rivers without bridges. Twenty years ago, Lonely Planet predicted that the trip would become as popular as the …
I watch the patrons strolling up and down the Paraparaumu Beach Market on a chilly spring Saturday morning. Tourists, locals, visitors from nearby towns, with or without dogs, partners, children; throngs of people moving past my stall, toward my stall, away from my stall. Most of them are after vegetables, seedlings and food. Maybe also …