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33,520 km to discover what sex, fairytales, eating and travel all have in common. We all know the end…
Rat & Dragon jumped on a skateboard, a tandem bike and a snow tube to explore, thanks to a bunch…
We know the name’s a little quirky. ‘Why Rat & Dragon?’ is about the second most asked question as…
London -> St Petersburg The first stage of our Epic London to Sydney overland journey is behind us. …
Mad and mighty Moscow looms out at you from the heavy Russian sky as you soak it up from street…
The Trans-Siberian: Moscow -> Vladivostok You’re plugged in. If you’re reading this, you’re online right now, so you’ve already…
The Rat & Dragon crew has now clocked up around 500 hours travelling and filming both the Trans-Siberian and the…
Packing clothes for somewhere you’ve never been before is always a bit of a tricky endeavour, especially if you’re heading…
We’ve lost count of our visits to this unbelievable city. Everything we had heard about the place jabbed at our…
Like a medieval battle re-enacted every five minutes, at a green signal, thousands of people charge at each other from…
Ready, set, GO! If you ever thought the cost of a Tokyo experience would pump up your blood pressure,…
We're half way there! Warning! Mathematicians, geophysicists and obsessive statistics fanatics, look away now. Avert your eyes from…
Joy, our young Beijing local, is no professional presenter, but stick her in front of a camera, she took to…
Monkeys are pretty cool at the best of times, whilst being admittedly somewhat scary and crazy mini humans, their comedic…
“I Kina spiser de hunde”, title of the 1999 Danish action comedy says it all. In China, they do really,…
Vladivostok -> Korea -> Japan -> China We ran out of land. We took trains, busses and cars…
1, 2, 3 – Good MOoooorniiiing, Viet-naaaaam! So many times did we hear this on our latest project, so many…
We’re up for big film challenges, so jumped at the chance when we were asked to film an elephant ride…
We know you have missed us terribly. Like being forced to wait an entire week for your next fix of…
It’s any given Tuesday and your alarm sounds at 6am. You hate it. You wonder whether you really need to…
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your Oyster, or so they say. The Thai capital is famously home to…
The Egyptians did it. The Mayans did it. The Tibetans did it. Even the Koreans and German Housewives do it,…
You are about to step into any 5 year old’s dream of dreams. Welcome to one of the craziest national…
I am just about to do something illegal. I’m about to cross an international border with what I am told…
“It’s gonna be outrageous!” says Nat, the founder of Mojo Surf, “It’s a three-week Bali & Beyond surf tour through…
Ever wanted a real filmmaking adventure? Exotic tropical travel, danger, beauty and glory? Well this could be your next project,…
You’ve just arrived in a brand new part of the world and it’s all incredibly exciting. You’ve remembered to get…
Young, fresh, radical and more often than not totally illegal, street art has taken our hearts and minds by storm.…
As you may have gathered whilst reading our ramblings along this particular trip, we have been travelling before. And to…
As night falls, the shadows are shredded by a motorbike’s headlights shining through a gate whilst a cat peeps out…
Many hate him. His armour is so hard and sharp and that he easily punctures and tears through flesh. He…
You’re gonna die. Sorry to break it to you. It’s nothing personal, just the nature of life. We’re all…
How’s it going? Everything smelling as it should? Nice to sniff your behind, run around the block and get to…
OMG and WTF… you haven’t heard from us in a while? That’s cause we accidentally took a wrong turning coming…
The Canadians have a beaver. Costa Rica has a clay-coloured thrush. The Swiss have a cow and Australia, well, Australia…
We cannot recommend overland travel enough. Read through our last 6 months of blog posts and you’ll see why. Overland…
Hellooooo. Helloooooooooooo....... *pat on the cheek* Hellooooo? Ah, hello! How are you feeling today? Good? Yes, of course you're feeling…
High on the walls above our heads, Chairman Mao (Tse Tung) glares dictatorially across the room at Uncle Ho (Chi…
Part 1: Darwin - Cairns 40000km into the Epic Journey and we are looking at our last of 19…
CCRAAAASHHHHHHHHH, SLAM, Bang bang bang bang… “Oh crap, I think I left one of the draws open”. We stop at…
It wasn’t the off-his-face, chanting, gesticulating, bare-chested backpacker in the middle of the road holding up central Darwin traffic and…
Part 2: Cairns – Sydney (see also Part 1: Darwin – Cairns) The East Coast. Australia’s string of…
“I must get to the other side. This is my quest, he waits for me”… a bearded armadillo stuck to…
40,000km across the face of this earth. Back in the day, it was people like Chris Columbus, Capn’ Cook and…
World Travel Market came around way faster than we’d anticipated. As a newly formed company this was our first year…
6 months ago we were in a rice field shouting “Nam. You weren’t there! You didn’t know what it was…
Act 1. Overnight ‘sleeper’ bus from Hanoi to Vientiane, March 2014. Amongst other fellow travelers sharing our insomnia, we get…
The mother of water. The cocoa coloured wonder. The Mighty Mekong. Call it what you like, this river rich in…
Returning wide-eyed and open mouthed from our 3 day mind-warp to the Field of Pots, (sorry, Plane of Jars), the…
11 months in the making, Tag has been our most ambitious project to date. Now spearheading STA Travel’s global Blue…
Hanging off one of the more distant of Indonesia’s haphazardly strewn eastern islands, you can find a little baby of…
Queensland. Some call it the Texas of Australia. Some call it ‘the place so humid, no one actually lives there’.…
We admit it. We’ve been in hiding. A whole month and a half without a word, even a simple little…
We’re staying in a tiny Lao village among the pigs and chickens and water buffalo on the Eastern bank of…
Thailand is diverse, yes, and distinctly Thai all over – green curry and lemongrass, laid-back beach boys and lady boys…
Myanmar. The crown jewel of the adventurous South East Asian backpacker. A hard-to-reach country, long shut off to independent travel…
You probably don’t remember this now, but there once was a very first time that you ever laid eyes on…
The first glimpse of our newest destination lay ahead of us, just a small sheet of plastic window between our…
So you’ve just arrived on the other side of the earth. Your eyeballs are almost hanging out of your head,…
6:30 pm. The hostel kitchen is teaming with 18-34 year olds in city print singlets and elephant pants. You’ve scored…
Warning - the following contains information about a place so beautiful that the prose that follows sometimes collapses into poetry.…
We’re not usually one to dabble with mysticism, the occult or superstition. We have had to deal with quite a…
The last two months have been the first in 2 years of Rat & Dragon we’ve spent in one place.…
It’s Nottingham, 2007, and our Rat’s at uni. One of her much cooler housemates’ boyfriends is banging on about some…
Don’t be a pussy. You might be really missing out, you know. As we’ve journeyed across the world and delved…
You can build a tennis court just about anywhere on the planet. When you finished reading this, you could probably…
Kindergarten, Primary School, pass the tests and get into a good Grammer School. Study hard. Don’t be too much of…
Guest blog post by the wonderful Tracy Brown. Chased by uniformed, badge wearing officers by torchlight… down dark alleys…
We wonder if the humble whale shark knows he’s the pinnacle of nature-related facebook selfies. Humans get a kick out…
You may have noticed we’ve just been to Western Australia. Seen STA Travel’s new film? Total eye candy. Been on…
You know sometimes someone tells you about this amazing place they went where they escaped the stresses of modern life…
You don’t quite know what’s hit you. A previously totally unimaginable sensation is chasing through your body and you have…
You’ve woken early. It’s 6am on a random Wednesday morning and you’re wondering: “What shall I do with…
If you haven’t seen Mad Max Fury road, drop what you’re doing and check out one of the most glorious…
Did you know that you can actually see Mount Doom from Hobbiton? Mount Ngauruhoe (the volcano’s non-hollywood name) was unfortunately…
In 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin strapped a large bedsheet to a basket with a balloon to elevate it to the desired…
We get it. You’ve seen it all already. On those posters, fliers, brochures, facebook ads and friends’ profile pics: the…
We’ve been researching a lot about skydivers recently. Last September, our project for Skydive Australia started to open up a…
That goat scene will never leave your memory. What had the goat done to deserve this anyway? But it could…
Over the Christmas break, after enjoying the big city lights of Melbourne, a group of us headed to Northern Queensland…
We just happened to look up from our editing machines as the lightning struck full pelt across the horizon. Ominous…
There are certain image collections that keep on popping up on facebook. “20 scary pictures from the past”, “OMG I…
You may know that Rat & Dragon was founded on two professionals knocking their heads together above a giant wok…
Australia. Awesome place to go backpacking. Kangaroos. Kind of cut off. Beer, BBQs, outback and beaches. Surf bums and cowboys…
Australia has a reputation of being a continent of red dusty desert, fringed by tropical rainforest and stunning white sand…
Imagine yourself surrounded by shimmering blue. Hovering in space, holding onto a rope made out of what looks like red…
If you’ve ever ventured a short drive from Surfer’s Paradise’s bright lights and city high-rises, you’ll find yourself on what…
We’ve had a lot of lucky run-ins with whales whilst filming projects on the East Coast recently. It’s the middle…
You’ve just parked up, the sun sparkling through the gently waving palm leaves above. You’re so excited of what lies…
Every kid nowadays has a camera. In fact, most humans carry around cameras in their jacket pockets, ready to flip…
Pristine white powdery sand between your toes, blue skies, a world-class surf break off shore, miles of national park with…
Nowadays King Island is a windy and lush haven of tranquillity, away from the city crowds and filled with beautiful…
It’s hard to find an art form that conquers the hearts and divides the opinions of millions around the globe…
What magic we humans conjure up every day. Yes, we make and eat food, go to big termite mounds in…
“Everyday’s a school day” so they say. Well we’d really like a day off occasionally, but when you’re constantly tasked…
Rat & Dragon set out to capture 24 hours to squeeze into 90 seconds of distilled London spirit, but with…
Setting off onto our latest epic project, the Rat & Dragon team has over the last few weeks become something…
33,520 km to discover what sex, fairytales, eating and travel all have in common. We all know the end…
Rat & Dragon jumped on a skateboard, a tandem bike and a snow tube to explore, thanks to a bunch…
Mad and mighty Moscow looms out at you from the heavy Russian sky as you soak it up from street…
Ready, set, GO! If you ever thought the cost of a Tokyo experience would pump up your blood pressure,…
Joy, our young Beijing local, is no professional presenter, but stick her in front of a camera, she took to…
1, 2, 3 – Good MOoooorniiiing, Viet-naaaaam! So many times did we hear this on our latest project, so many…
We know you have missed us terribly. Like being forced to wait an entire week for your next fix of…
It’s any given Tuesday and your alarm sounds at 6am. You hate it. You wonder whether you really need to…
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your Oyster, or so they say. The Thai capital is famously home to…
“It’s gonna be outrageous!” says Nat, the founder of Mojo Surf, “It’s a three-week Bali & Beyond surf tour through…
As night falls, the shadows are shredded by a motorbike’s headlights shining through a gate whilst a cat peeps out…
OMG and WTF… you haven’t heard from us in a while? That’s cause we accidentally took a wrong turning coming…
Part 1: Darwin - Cairns 40000km into the Epic Journey and we are looking at our last of 19…
Part 2: Cairns – Sydney (see also Part 1: Darwin – Cairns) The East Coast. Australia’s string of…
6 months ago we were in a rice field shouting “Nam. You weren’t there! You didn’t know what it was…
The mother of water. The cocoa coloured wonder. The Mighty Mekong. Call it what you like, this river rich in…
Returning wide-eyed and open mouthed from our 3 day mind-warp to the Field of Pots, (sorry, Plane of Jars), the…
11 months in the making, Tag has been our most ambitious project to date. Now spearheading STA Travel’s global Blue…
We admit it. We’ve been in hiding. A whole month and a half without a word, even a simple little…
Thailand is diverse, yes, and distinctly Thai all over – green curry and lemongrass, laid-back beach boys and lady boys…
Myanmar. The crown jewel of the adventurous South East Asian backpacker. A hard-to-reach country, long shut off to independent travel…
Warning - the following contains information about a place so beautiful that the prose that follows sometimes collapses into poetry.…
You may have noticed we’ve just been to Western Australia. Seen STA Travel’s new film? Total eye candy. Been on…
You know sometimes someone tells you about this amazing place they went where they escaped the stresses of modern life…
You don’t quite know what’s hit you. A previously totally unimaginable sensation is chasing through your body and you have…
You’ve woken early. It’s 6am on a random Wednesday morning and you’re wondering: “What shall I do with…
If you haven’t seen Mad Max Fury road, drop what you’re doing and check out one of the most glorious…
Did you know that you can actually see Mount Doom from Hobbiton? Mount Ngauruhoe (the volcano’s non-hollywood name) was unfortunately…
Imagine yourself surrounded by shimmering blue. Hovering in space, holding onto a rope made out of what looks like red…
If you’ve ever ventured a short drive from Surfer’s Paradise’s bright lights and city high-rises, you’ll find yourself on what…
You’ve just parked up, the sun sparkling through the gently waving palm leaves above. You’re so excited of what lies…
Pristine white powdery sand between your toes, blue skies, a world-class surf break off shore, miles of national park with…
London -> St Petersburg The first stage of our Epic London to Sydney overland journey is behind us. …
The Trans-Siberian: Moscow -> Vladivostok You’re plugged in. If you’re reading this, you’re online right now, so you’ve already…
We’ve lost count of our visits to this unbelievable city. Everything we had heard about the place jabbed at our…
We're half way there! Warning! Mathematicians, geophysicists and obsessive statistics fanatics, look away now. Avert your eyes from…
Vladivostok -> Korea -> Japan -> China We ran out of land. We took trains, busses and cars…
Young, fresh, radical and more often than not totally illegal, street art has taken our hearts and minds by storm.…
As you may have gathered whilst reading our ramblings along this particular trip, we have been travelling before. And to…
How’s it going? Everything smelling as it should? Nice to sniff your behind, run around the block and get to…
The Canadians have a beaver. Costa Rica has a clay-coloured thrush. The Swiss have a cow and Australia, well, Australia…
High on the walls above our heads, Chairman Mao (Tse Tung) glares dictatorially across the room at Uncle Ho (Chi…
It wasn’t the off-his-face, chanting, gesticulating, bare-chested backpacker in the middle of the road holding up central Darwin traffic and…
40,000km across the face of this earth. Back in the day, it was people like Chris Columbus, Capn’ Cook and…
World Travel Market came around way faster than we’d anticipated. As a newly formed company this was our first year…
Act 1. Overnight ‘sleeper’ bus from Hanoi to Vientiane, March 2014. Amongst other fellow travelers sharing our insomnia, we get…
We’re staying in a tiny Lao village among the pigs and chickens and water buffalo on the Eastern bank of…
We’re not usually one to dabble with mysticism, the occult or superstition. We have had to deal with quite a…
The last two months have been the first in 2 years of Rat & Dragon we’ve spent in one place.…
It’s Nottingham, 2007, and our Rat’s at uni. One of her much cooler housemates’ boyfriends is banging on about some…
Guest blog post by the wonderful Tracy Brown. Chased by uniformed, badge wearing officers by torchlight… down dark alleys…
We get it. You’ve seen it all already. On those posters, fliers, brochures, facebook ads and friends’ profile pics: the…
Over the Christmas break, after enjoying the big city lights of Melbourne, a group of us headed to Northern Queensland…
There are certain image collections that keep on popping up on facebook. “20 scary pictures from the past”, “OMG I…
You may know that Rat & Dragon was founded on two professionals knocking their heads together above a giant wok…
Australia. Awesome place to go backpacking. Kangaroos. Kind of cut off. Beer, BBQs, outback and beaches. Surf bums and cowboys…
Australia has a reputation of being a continent of red dusty desert, fringed by tropical rainforest and stunning white sand…
It’s hard to find an art form that conquers the hearts and divides the opinions of millions around the globe…
What magic we humans conjure up every day. Yes, we make and eat food, go to big termite mounds in…
We know the name’s a little quirky. ‘Why Rat & Dragon?’ is about the second most asked question as…
The Rat & Dragon crew has now clocked up around 500 hours travelling and filming both the Trans-Siberian and the…
Packing clothes for somewhere you’ve never been before is always a bit of a tricky endeavour, especially if you’re heading…
Like a medieval battle re-enacted every five minutes, at a green signal, thousands of people charge at each other from…
Monkeys are pretty cool at the best of times, whilst being admittedly somewhat scary and crazy mini humans, their comedic…
“I Kina spiser de hunde”, title of the 1999 Danish action comedy says it all. In China, they do really,…
We’re up for big film challenges, so jumped at the chance when we were asked to film an elephant ride…
The Egyptians did it. The Mayans did it. The Tibetans did it. Even the Koreans and German Housewives do it,…
You are about to step into any 5 year old’s dream of dreams. Welcome to one of the craziest national…
I am just about to do something illegal. I’m about to cross an international border with what I am told…
Ever wanted a real filmmaking adventure? Exotic tropical travel, danger, beauty and glory? Well this could be your next project,…
You’ve just arrived in a brand new part of the world and it’s all incredibly exciting. You’ve remembered to get…
Many hate him. His armour is so hard and sharp and that he easily punctures and tears through flesh. He…
You’re gonna die. Sorry to break it to you. It’s nothing personal, just the nature of life. We’re all…
We cannot recommend overland travel enough. Read through our last 6 months of blog posts and you’ll see why. Overland…
Hellooooo. Helloooooooooooo....... *pat on the cheek* Hellooooo? Ah, hello! How are you feeling today? Good? Yes, of course you're feeling…
CCRAAAASHHHHHHHHH, SLAM, Bang bang bang bang… “Oh crap, I think I left one of the draws open”. We stop at…
“I must get to the other side. This is my quest, he waits for me”… a bearded armadillo stuck to…
Hanging off one of the more distant of Indonesia’s haphazardly strewn eastern islands, you can find a little baby of…
Queensland. Some call it the Texas of Australia. Some call it ‘the place so humid, no one actually lives there’.…
You probably don’t remember this now, but there once was a very first time that you ever laid eyes on…
The first glimpse of our newest destination lay ahead of us, just a small sheet of plastic window between our…
So you’ve just arrived on the other side of the earth. Your eyeballs are almost hanging out of your head,…
6:30 pm. The hostel kitchen is teaming with 18-34 year olds in city print singlets and elephant pants. You’ve scored…
Don’t be a pussy. You might be really missing out, you know. As we’ve journeyed across the world and delved…
You can build a tennis court just about anywhere on the planet. When you finished reading this, you could probably…
Kindergarten, Primary School, pass the tests and get into a good Grammer School. Study hard. Don’t be too much of…
We wonder if the humble whale shark knows he’s the pinnacle of nature-related facebook selfies. Humans get a kick out…
In 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin strapped a large bedsheet to a basket with a balloon to elevate it to the desired…
We’ve been researching a lot about skydivers recently. Last September, our project for Skydive Australia started to open up a…
That goat scene will never leave your memory. What had the goat done to deserve this anyway? But it could…
We just happened to look up from our editing machines as the lightning struck full pelt across the horizon. Ominous…
We’ve had a lot of lucky run-ins with whales whilst filming projects on the East Coast recently. It’s the middle…
Every kid nowadays has a camera. In fact, most humans carry around cameras in their jacket pockets, ready to flip…
Nowadays King Island is a windy and lush haven of tranquillity, away from the city crowds and filled with beautiful…
“Everyday’s a school day” so they say. Well we’d really like a day off occasionally, but when you’re constantly tasked…
Rat & Dragon set out to capture 24 hours to squeeze into 90 seconds of distilled London spirit, but with…
Setting off onto our latest epic project, the Rat & Dragon team has over the last few weeks become something…