The Photos I Never Took: A Year of Full-Time Travel in 2025

Quiet sign on a train window in Italy.

I have completed another twelve months of travel and as well as listing where I was, I wanted to look back on what stayed with me. These are moments that I didn’t record at the time. Sometimes because the moment was fleeting, sometimes out of respect for the people involved, sometimes because I just wasn’t there! What follows is a year told in words instead of photographs.

Being Sick in a Disaster Zone: My Hat Yai Story.

Flooding in Hat Yai, Thailand.

During a week starting from the 20th November 2025, Hat Yai, in Southern Thailand became a disaster zone. People lost their homes, their livelihoods, in some cases their lives. This is not that story, this is a smaller one, set inside it.