Nomadic Emma

This past weekend, London went a little bit mad. Queen mad. We hung bunting right across the country...  And baked jub...

Welcome summer. You with your already warm mornings in which the foxes find squares of sun to snatch sleep. Your weekend days whic...

As I find myself back in my real world, I just wanted to say... ...Thank you. Thanks to all the taxi drivers who took me from one sid...

I used to be a relatively intrepid traveller. Almost 11 years ago, I threw a rucksack on my back, and spent two months in Thailand, Malaysia...

I've seen some interesting sights in the four days I've been in Accra. Here's a collection:  It's a three da...

There was nothing quite like watching the moon rise over the African continent last Saturday evening. Below me lay winding riverbeds like tw...

As another winter passes, and spring brings her spontaneous showers and brilliant blue skies (sometimes all at once), I've been doing s...

Last year I spent a whole lot of time thinking. Way too much thinking. What country/ city/ borough should I live in? What career/ masters to...

Ever since I lived on the very edge of Japan's west coast, I've wanted to visit North Korea. If you've ever seen pictures of the...

It's not often that twitter makes me misty eyed, but that's exactly what happened this morning when I read that Encyclopædia Britann...