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From creepy peaks to death and depression, we venture into eerie real-life places with horror movie names
Picture this: you’re driving along a sun-scorched plain in the Australian Outback. You’re thirsty, sweaty, irritable and in desperate need of a wash. As you and your friend quibble about whether you should have stopped at that tiny shack of a motel 30 kilometres ago, you spot a sign up ahead. According to the map, you’re hours away from the next stop. Might this be a reprieve?
Seven years after their original list, Kia and Peter revisit the countries they most want to see
In 2017, during a long trip through Asia, I asked Peter a question: if you could see only five countries before you die, what would they be?
My rule was that he couldn’t choose countries he had already visited, nor stateless territories (e.g. Antarctica). Fast forward seven years and he has seen four out of five countries on his original list, so I asked him to come up with a new one. Given that he has been to 100 countries and all seven continents, it wasn’t easy – but he managed it.
