Highway Mirage

Stories from the otherside

This is a small but growing collection of real life stories from my journeys around the world. It is also a collection of stories about the outsiders I have met on my travels who have filled me with inspiration.

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matshakesjones

Sep 26, 2023
4 min

A long day's journey into night

“Haree dalan”, the young boy said to me smiling while handing my motorbike helmet back. The Tetum expression translates literally as “see...

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matshakesjones

Feb 23, 2022
3 min

Let them eat cake

This article was originally published in World Finance Magazine in August 2008. Stagflation is a term that came into common usage in the...

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The Happy Mondays - poets from the streets

matshakesjones

Dec 11, 2021
3 min

The Happy Mondays - poets from the streets

Like Charles Bukowski, who prided himself on writing the “truth”, the Happy Mondays spoke about the world as they saw it, and, to quote...

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Adjusting to life in Sydney after Timor-Leste

matshakesjones

Sep 22, 2021
6 min

Adjusting to life in Sydney after Timor-Leste

Between December 2018 and March 2020 I was an aid worker in Timor-Leste, a country just an hour’s flight from Darwin but with a markedly...

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matshakesjones

Apr 10, 2021
3 min

Restless Insomniac

The sounds from Victoria Street drift through my window: cackled laughter of old drunken locals chatting to backpackers in Tropicana...

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