You don’t pack up and leave your home and everything you’ve ever known behind you without learning a few things along the way. The ever-challenging and eye opening daily adventure that is “the road” is constantly equipping me with further life skills and shaping the person I am. I am a more confident and less … More Things Travel Has Taught Me
I don’t want to have regrets but I can’t stop thinking about how I didn’t go to Lopburi. My bucket list item, Lopburi. My listed in ‘Thailand, Regrets and Returning’, Lopburi. It seems that after nearly six months, my lethargy and apathy towards exploration has well and truly struck me and even bucket list items … More Craving Routine
I have frequently made mention of the fact that Khao Sok has been my favourite travel experience so far; an overnight stay on a lake 150 metres deep in places, caving through a subterranean wonderland complete with a waterfall, lake and spiders that look like the creatures Mad Eye Moody performs the Cruciatus curse on … More Songkhran Seriously Superceeding Khao Sok
After nearly 24 hours of travel; a boat, bus, mini bus, border crossing, another mini bus and a sleeper train; I have made it back to Thailand. Back to the land of smiles. The land where water costs me 12p instead of £1 and the land of the 7/11. I never thought I’d miss a … More Back to Bangkok
I leave Thailand for Cambodia on Monday. I would rather move Christmas. If it wasn’t for the fact I have a date with my beautiful friend for the festive season and beyond, I would be firmly set on staying in Thailand. I have fallen in love with this vibrant country and it’s people. I feel … More Thailand: regrets and returning
I didn’t know what to expect of Phi-Phi. A friend at home told me I HAD to go. She went 8 years ago and loved it. Another friend told me she hated it, likening it to Patong Beach in Phuket and Brits Abroad. I didn’t know what to expect. I decided I had to see … More Koh Phi Phi Don, I Did You Wrong
Three hours drive north of Chiang Mai is a real life paradise on Earth in the form of the village of Pai. Nestled in the mountains and boasting the most breathtaking scenery I have ever seen, Pai started as a hippy enclave for Chiang Mai bohemians who would come to hang out by the river, … More Six Days of Paradise in Pai
I have been waiting for an opportunity to attend this festival since I was a child. When I heard earlier on this year that it takes place in November, the same time that I am in Thailand, I couldn’t believe my luck. Finally, I could go. Loy Krathong and Yi Peng coincide with each other (as … More Loi Krathong and Yi Peng, The Thai Festival of Letting Go
I’m glad I made the decision to start in Bangkok, somewhere I have already been before. I was so scared; expecting culture shock, confusion and fear but the bustling chaos of this sprawling metropolis just feels so familiar to me and it makes me smile. I first came to Thailand nearly ten years ago and … More Six Things My First Two Days in Bangkok Reminded Me About Thailand
When I was 11 years old I fell off my bike. Now, as anyone will tell you, the best thing to do is get straight back on it. As anyone with anxiety will tell you, if something bad happens, you develop a fear for that situation and the avoidance that follows is a self preservation … More The Two-Wheeled Challenge
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