Traditional Yapese art, Trader’s Ridge Hotel (photo: Simon Sellars). by Simon Sellars Originally published on Sleepy Brain 19 December 2005. In late 2005 I travelled around the North Pacific on assignment for Lonely Planet. I visited the islands of Yap, Kosrae, Guam, Pohnpei, Rota, Tinian, Saipan and Palau and had the most marvellous time. The [...]

Osaka Lights. Photo: Simon Sellars. In the second half of 2004 I was travelling around northern Japan on assignment for Lonely Planet. I was also commissioned by LP to maintain a blog of my trip. The entire blog archive is here, but I’ve reproduced one of my favourite entries below. ‘My First Earthquake’ by Simon [...]