Packing up your life and leaving behind all that is familiar is a daunting experience, but it’s one that I would wholeheartedly prescribe. When I left Heathrow airport with nothing but a backpack to my name and an adventure ahead, I was sure of who I was. After all I never embarked on this journey...Read More
Have you ever stood next to a building, or should I say underneath a building, looked up and felt a sense of overwhelming magnitude. Felt a flip in the pit of your stomach just at the sheer enormity, like the kind you get on a roller coaster as it corkscrews its way along the tracks. All...Read More
Just 40 short years ago communist leader Pol Pot and his Khmer Rogue army were inflicting their reign of terror and genocide on the people of Cambodia. In just under four years they would wipe out an estimated 1.7 million people, a staggering 21 percent of Cambodia’s population. In the chronicle of 20th century horrors,...Read More
At the start of our trip we envisaged immersing ourselves fully into the countries we visited. Of meeting the people who lived there and of learning to understand their ways of life on a far deeper level than the generic tourist attractions that are a great allure for many travellers. But I have to say,...Read More
In 2012 Passenger sang ‘you only hate the road when your missing home’ and in 2015 I can vouch for him on that one. Travelling around from place to place, as frequently as I have been, can be an exhausting experience. As much as you try to seek out the best each place you visit...Read More
Having now finished my tour of Indonesia it is clear to me that Ubud is Bali’s cultural hub. Home to the artful and the creative, this serene town really does live up to the hype of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling memoir told the story of one woman’s search for inner balance and...Read More
In Vietnam there was one trip we knew we just had to do and that was the cruise to Ha Long Bay. Like most people we had the majority of our information about Ha Long from that episode of Top Gear, but that was enough to convince us. So after some extensive research we chose to...Read More
If you have Instagram, or live in the world, you will know that the latest trend in the food realm is to go green. It’s all wheatgrass shots and chi seed pudding these days. The mantra is ‘you are what you eat’ and if you’re not chowing down of a raw vegan diet and waking up...Read More
So, it’s that the time of year when our Facebook pages and Twitter feeds fill up with images of other people off on their holidays. Whether you are going on holiday or not, it’s hard to avoid that spark of envy when yet another picture of a cocktail pops up against the backdrop drop of...Read More
One thing you must do if you find yourself in Vietnam’s capital city is to visit the War Remnants Museum. Located in district three of Ho Chi Minh, the museum contains several exhibits relating to the Vietnam War. I have always enjoyed history but had very little knowledge on the war that took place between...Read More
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