About Martin Holland

I was an idiot. I had literally drawn a line on a map from England to Australia through a bunch of countries I had absolutely no clue about (I still have the map!), and then told everyone about it
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The lectures and workshops are fascinating, but it’s the atmosphere that makes it unique. The energy and sense of support and encouragement that the event creates is electrifying – you can’t help but come away with a sense of urgency and self-belief, as well as the contacts to make whatever you decide to do `happen
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Alternative lifestyle design for me is about creating a low-cost, low impact, creative, adventurous, love-filled, ethical, fulfilling, and financially independent life.

That statement probably needs some background, and that’s what the rest of this post is about. You might want to grab a cuppa or a glass of wine and get comfy.
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Soulchaser began as a travel blog back in 2005. I was 20 and had just quit my awesome job in a fit of frustrated wanderlust that had manifested itself as a sort of demented, irrational, but growing anger and dissatisfaction at a fairly free but also stagnant life in Oxford.
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Fools, who would search for the soul of India in the cold and sombre shadows of her many tombs and temples! May your tour be long and consuming, for while …
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Ajay has no muscles in his legs. He moves, crablike, by grabbing the balls of his feet with his seemingly huge hands, muscled by their continuous labour, and using his …
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Pleased, I went back to my room and he followed me, still talking. Then, suddenly, he patted my crotch and asked me if I wanted to “make homosex”!
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Of course that is only the romanticism of a mind with too much time and too little purpose. These streets were not ‘made’ at all. They are a consequence: the result of the construction of houses and homes, shacks and shelters sprung from the ground in spontaneous unplanned disarray. Theirs is the confusion of India herself.
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Mark Twain said of Indians that “with them all life appears to be sacred except human life”. Walking along the riverside in Dwarka it occurred to me that dog life …
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To celebrate my 21st Birthday I had decided to summit Mt Chimborazo. At 6,310m it was once thought to be the highest mountain in the world. Of course it isn’t, …
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