Over the years, I’ve had some very remote adventures. In 2019, I went to Sierra Leone to document Dr Jane Goodall’s return to the country to celebrate chimpanzees’ being named the national animal. Our shoot was fraught with every foreseeable challenge (lack of electricity, food poisoning, missing my water taxi to the airport because I was being held at gunpoint). But after all that the people of Sierra Leone have overcome in recent times — extreme poverty, civil war, poaching, mud slides, ebola, COVID-19 — they are so happy, so welcoming and forward thinking. I couldn’t help but be motivated to share their stories with the world.
My favourite international city is Cape Town. It’s like the best parts of Los Angeles and San Francisco had an affair with South Africa and their love child was Cape Town. It has world-class restaurants and hotels, wineries in every direction, penguins, art, design, fashion, music, killer sunsets and you can be up and down Lion’s Head and at your desk by 9am.
Solo travel forces you to be more curious and open minded. It also makes you more approachable. I’ve had so many life-changing experiences because I just said yes to someone new I met when travelling. The only things I’ve really regretted in life are the things I didn’t try.
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