Evie's Journal

Recent study suggests if you don’t know what Kylie Jenner has had for breakfast there’s a 99.9% chance you will forget how to breathe. Your phones, your tablets, your iPads, your mp3 players, your smart watches, your fancy fridges from John Lewis: they all are united by one holy binding force, they all have Wi-Fi.   A spiritual messenger that guides you with heavenly power through every half second of the day.   Her knowledge is as infinite and as boundless as the universe. Don’t know whether goldfish can survive in milk or not? Is Africa a country? Need to urgently know whether your Aunt Meredith who you haven’t seen for 7 years got a refund on her hairdryer she got from amazon last week?   The internet has you covered. As our solar system orbits around the sun, we orbit around our love of telling the interwoven virtual sphere about   the precise length of toilet paper we prefer to use down to the nearest millimetre   and if we scrunch that said toi...

I am standing on the steep clifftop - feet dangerously close to the edge - completely captivated by Antalya’s Koprulu Canyon. Below me stands the sandy, jagged cliff face, the jade green shrubs which adorn it and the vivid, celestial rapids of the Kopru river which twist and wind into the horizon.  Soon enough I will be fully submerged in this tortuous, tumultuous river and embarking on a thrilling raft journey through the dramatic landscape. After crawling over strewn rocks and boulders, the adventure finally begins. It’s an incredibly bumpy ride back down to the rafting station. The rusty jeep gawkily charges across the rubble, passing locals who are having picnics in the middle of the dirt tracks in the scorching heat. Just as we think we have reached our destination the jeep thunders through a shallow dip in the river. This almighty splash is the first of many to come. Situated ninety-six kilometres north east of Antalya, we are deep in the rural Turkish mountai...