Can I love and hate Bangkok?
byIs it possible to both love and hate somewhere at the same time? Bangkok is one of those places that travellers are either drawn…
Destinations
Tamarind Cooking School, Luang Prabang
byFancy learning to cook buffalo guts? I’d finally psyched myself up to asking hubbie if he fancied doing a class at Tamarind Cooking School with…
A Day Trip to Kuang Si Waterfalls from Luang Prabang – by Boat
byThis is a review of a day trip to Kuang Si Falls from Luang Prabang with Banana Boat Laos. A couple of months ago…
Living Land Rice Farm – being farmers for the day
byA day ago I would have found nothing quite so terrifying as a gigantic hairy spider scuttling past just milimetres from my bare leg,…
Top things to do in Luang Prabang
byTop things to do in Luang Prabang They told me 5 nights in Luang Prabang was too long. They told me the town is no…
The tale of the Indonesian gecko
byWe’d arrived exhausted and late in Bali, and after a couple of hours in a stuffy taxi had finally reached the sublime Bambu Indah…
Can luxury and dung beetles really be bed buddies?
byWe just had to stay at the Addo Dung Beetle Guest Farm. With a name like that and being a stone’s throw away from…
Wild camping in the Lake District – how to do it!
byUpdated Spring 2025 In England wild camping it is illegal. But also lots of fun! There’s nothing quite like a spot of wild camping…
Lions before breakfast – Hluhluwe Imfolozi
byI stared at the storm of flies buzzing frenziedly around the steaming entrails. Trickles of blood were slowly creeping along the furrows of the dried mud track and I couldn’t rid…
Top things to do in Istanbul
byMaybe it was because it was grey and raining. Maybe it was because I couldn’t help but compare it to my beloved cities in…
Eating and sleeping Istanbul
byThe Hotel Amira in the heart of Sultanahmet was a little larger and more ’city-chic’ than we normally go for, and I was a…
Hiking Love Valley & Visiting the Open Air Museum in Goreme
byOne of the best things about Goreme is that you can walk out from your hotel and immediately be immersed in one unusual sight…