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Looking around Stockholm, there is much that appears very similar to Australia. There are reruns of bad American sitcoms on television in English, there are similar public transport systems, education systems and shopping centres, and if I see another poster or billboard of Beyonce advertising H&M I think I might rip it down myself.
But when you scratch the surface, there are some interesting cultural differences. Read more
Switzerland is a stunning country. Clean, neat and ordered with an abundance of natural beauty that you could sit and stare at for hours.
Alongside admiring the snow capped mountains, green hillsides dotted with cows with cow-bells jangling around their necks, enjoying Swiss chocolate and wandering through the ‘old towns’ in Switzerland’s cities, one of our favourite things to do when we’re travelling is to watch people. Read more
One the second day of the Masters in Social Innovation program, two questions were asked – how much is enough, and what makes for a ‘good life’?
The questions are analysed in a book by Robert and Edward Skidelsky called How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life. The authors ask, within a world of ever diminishing resources, how much ongoing consumption is really necessary to achieve a ‘good life’?
That got us thinking about the Western world we live in, why it operates the way it does, and what we might do about it. Read more
About six months ago when we first heard there was an international Masters in Social Innovation being pioneered in a little university town in Austria, we thought it sounded like exactly the type of thing we should check out. Read more
Henry David Thoreau, an American author, poet and philosopher, once said: “I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
We love the idea of living deliberately. Of squeezing all the juice out of life and actively seeking to learn at every opportunity. That’s why we’ve decided to spend the next part of our lives working, volunteering, studying and travelling overseas.