Michelin-starred restaurants, shopping malls with massive food courts, street stalls galore. You often hear about how great the food scene is in Bangkok but the first several times I visited Bangkok I...
It’s no secret I adore Chiang Mai’s coffee scene. It’s mind boggling the number of cafes that have sprung up here over the past several years and the trend doesn’t seem to be stopping....
The first year I lived in Chiang Mai I saw a documentary that looked at a few permaculture communities across Asia and India. I had never heard of the concept or knew such communities existed and was particularly...
Going on day three of battling a high fever and sore throat so bad tears came to my eyes when I tried to swallow, I was really questioning why the hell I had gone back to India. And particularly to Rajasthan,...
When I first lived abroad after college then when I first backpacked around Southeast Asia, my budget was tight. I wanted to squeeze everything I could out of every dollar, pound, euro, baht, rupee, whatever,...
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for a Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway...
Last month I took a quick trip to Hong Kong, made even quicker due to the fact that I messed up my plane tickets and spent more time waiting in airports grumbling about having to buy last-minute seats...
I had heard of The Yacht Week before – the company runs incredible, perhaps notorious, trips around Europe in places like Croatia, Greece and Italy arranging fleets of boats that travel through...
Christmas in Thailand is always a little strange. It’s the nicest time of the year meaning, instead of clouds, cold temperatures and depressing darkness – like I’m used to in Seattle...
The overcast skies and cool mistiness of the mountains were a welcome change from the hellishly hot temperatures – 113 degrees! – of Bagan. After being dropped off near the famous Inle Lake...
