Features

Five Skinny writers are given the challenge of regaling us with their favourite travelling tales. We asked them to keep it short Read more »

Roll up, it's boys versus girls on this one. Yes, we are being fatuous, and we don't care. Read more »

Sporting an unhealthy lust for danger, a nomadic desire to travel and a high threshold for discomfort, Patrick Richardson has spent 40 years exploring some of the world’s most remote places and scribbling about them in what has now become Reports from Beyond: A Journey through Life to Remote Places. Compiled by 52 travel reports for several broadsheets such as the Herald and the Scotsman, Richardson has travelled extensively through rural Africa, South America, Europe and Asia on a tiny budget, roaming his way through political upheaval, lawless regimes and poverty stricken countries. Read more »

In the second part of Alex Burden's feature on Zurich clubbing culture, we get in-depth clubs and artists engineering it. Read more »

Deviance editor Nine is no shrinking violet these days, perhaps never was. Here she recounts how she overcame the fear of travelling alone Read more »

Arun ponders the nature of existence during a recent trip to India Read more »