The Senses

What’s TheSenses about?

This site is about conscious travel. We at TheSenses, believe in deepening a travel experience, in delving beneath the surface of a place, uncovering the spirit and, dare we say it, being a mite more informed than is often the case. There are plenty of specialist stores and sites but none bring these threads of experience together. Of course much of today’s ‘globalised’ culture is about fusion, about intermeshing cultures and genres, but there remains a bottom line of creativity that bears the stamp of one specific cultural identity. This is the one we want to explore.

Enhance it - make it stronger - feel it - use your senses !

The icing on the cake of every journey is that little corner of your mind that takes off to embrace a foreignness - and is transfixed. Day-dreams kick in, set into motion by evocative narrative, exotic sounds, or flashing images on a screen. A French writer once wrote "real life is elsewhere" - meaning that’s often where we’d prefer to be.

You might already be there, in XYZ, rocking through tropical landscapes on a train, prostrate on the sand under a coconut-palm, exploring crumbling ruins or hiking up a misty hillside.

Or you might be flicking through brochures and searching the web for a dream trip. Then again you could be back home, trying to recover from post-holiday distress. What better way than to plug into the words, sounds and images of the country that has worked its way inside you? Then maybe cook a meal with pungent flavours to spark off instant nostalgia.

So who are we?

…. such seemingly arrogant world culture-vultures?

The founding trio is London-based:-

• Fiona Dunlop veteran travel-writer and photographer who just can’t let go (www.fionadunlop.com)
• James Ruthven globe-trotter extraordinaire and founder of IT company, Hungry Fish (www.hungryfish.com)
• Daeheon Kim designer, photographer and Korean epicure.

How TheSenses works

Obviously what we three know is the tip of the iceberg, so we want to expand this site by posting relevant comment, tips and longer contributions. TheSenses is open-ended and open-minded. All contributors will be named beside their copy (unless they indicate otherwise) but we reserve the right to edit text and to reject. This, by the way, is a classic rip-off! We don’t pay! But if things go well, we shall remunerate all contributors. So, hold on, and keep the ideas flowing.

Our Senses

Classics of amok [Malaysia]