Neonauts

Lake of Stars, Lake Malawi

Our last treat at the end of over a year of travel was a weekend on the island paradise of where we watched the sun set, and my old friend Orion rise, over the mirror-still waters of a lake the size of a sea.

The photo hardly does it justice but I wanted to provide evidence of the stars' reflection in the water – something I've only seen clearly a few times in my life, when all the conditions were right. I guess that's why they call it "Lake of Stars".

Zomba Plateau, Malawi

Cloud forest, pines, grasslands, mountain slopes, subsistence farms... Zomba is a little world of its own. With each passing kilometer of our hike we could have been in South America, New Zealand or Eastern Europe. But we weren't. We were in Africa. And there's something magical about that, which is hard to articulate.

Africa, our ancestral home. Realm of giant beasts. Conflicted, welcoming, lush, ravaged. I dunno. Just Africa.

Aspects of Bangkok

And at last, one final stop before... Well, before another few months in Africa but no longer free to travel as we please. To end this long phase of constant motion back in Bangkok, a city of pure motion, was perfect. We planned for weeks over what we were going to eat on the street each day, and filled ourselves with Bangkok's offerings every moment we could.

The Wife and the water, Thailand

I have so far rarely included us in photos in this feed but here's a set of my Number 1, in and around her favourite – and I'm inclined to wonder if it's her natural – environment: the sea.