"The earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson For Christmas I treated myself to a new camera and for my birthday NewMan spoiled me with this new lens perfect for taking photos of the exotic plants and flowers that filled the garden of our Koh Samui holiday villa with beautiful read more
I'm not sure if I'll write more about my holiday in Koh Samui... it was a holiday after all. But I did have some lovely moments of happiness so thank you for letting me share these with you. .… read more
It was and is one of my small missions to highlight how Phuket is more than what people think. It's more than a tacky tourist take on "real" Thailand. It's more than Patong and ping pong shows. It's more than the high rise hotels that make me shudder a little. Read more
I was going to throw this photo in with the others I took during our day trip island hopping across Phang Nga Bay, but it was too special.Taken from the back of our taxi as we drove across the still astonishingly traditional Thai island of Koh Yao Noi, I read more
On Sunday we hired a speedboat for the day and toured the beautiful corner of the Andaman Sea that washes up into Phang Nga Bay. We snorkelled, wakeboarded, sunbathed and had lunch in one of our favourite places in Thailand - at La Sala restaurant at Koyao Bay Pavillions on Koh read more
My stomach plummets to the very base of my body, air catches at the back of my throat, a heady rush of realisation that I'm travelling at a speed I can't control washes over me and I don't know how this will end. A pulse of panic ensues. Read more
It feels wrong writing first impressions for Phuket, a place that we have travelled through five or six times in the last year. But this time we are staying a while... (Roll over the circles on these photos to read some of my (almost) first impressions and experiences on read more
Last night NewMan and I were feeling lazy following an impromptu afternoon being big kids so we trundled downstairs to order food from the small but excellent restaurant in the basement of our small apartment block in our small piece of Thailand. As we ordered some Thai food, NewMan asked read more
Within thirty hours of touching down in Heathrow after my Canadian adventures, I was back at the very same airport, almost rested, totally washed and just about re-packed. There I saw NewMan for the first time in three weeks (we instigated a no video Skype rule - it was interesting, read more
This post is part two of a short story I wrote for a travel writing competition but didn't submit. You can read part one here. It's an embarrassingly true story. Don't judge a long-tail boat by it's driver... continued. So there we are.Me, my Australian boyfriend read more
I wrote the following for a travel writing competition that I didn't enter. The reasons why I didn't send this off are too long and uninteresting for today but I feel the story may still be worth telling. It's a true story.... Don't judge a long-tail boat read more
This photo was taken some time ago when we stayed in Marina Bay Sands in Singapore at the very beginning of our trip to Australia via Southeast Asia. I didn't want to share it on the blog then because I was still sort of anonymous and I was a little read more
