The basic recipe of creating accommodation that works was found by Paul Amron Yuwono a long time ago by simply taking a look at his own lifestyle. A natural born traveler, Yuwono had found it hard to stay in one place for very long. His father then came up with a good reason to make him settle a bit in Jogjakarta, “Why don’t you start your own youth hostel?” Shortly after, in the early 1990s, Vagabond International Youth Hostel ...

John O’Sullivan has been writing poetry since he was twelve and collecting artwork since he was sixteen, but it wasn’t until he was in his mid-thirties that he woke up and decided to paint. For every painting he writes a poem. He believes, “words and images are natural bed-partners; as kids we make a huge connection between the two, but as we get older reality beats it out of us. I like to reconnect words and images; generally, the picture ...