My travel diary, plus thoughts, tips, hacks and strategies for growing online side hustles, travelling the world and living your best life!
Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful festive holiday season and got some well earned R & R! As I said in last months travel log, my daughter & I headed off to a very chilly Tokyo for a few days before Christmas, which was fantastic! However, having just been to Japan, I … Read more
Hello my travelling friend! Welcome to my very first monthly (may eventually be weekly), travel journal post. My goal is to document my comings and goings, not to just waffle on about myself for 1000+ words, but to share with you interesting experiences, places to visit and recommendations from the fabulous whereabouts I explore along … Read more
So you’re thinking about living in Thailand! I’ve been living in Thailand for around 12 years now with my family; my daughter has just finished school here and Thailand is more of a home to me now than the UK. After many questions from friends and colleagues I thought it would be helpful to put … Read more
‘Marmite Houmous???’ I exclaimed to anyone who would listen in the shopping aisle at Tesco! So far, I’d found marmite cheese, marmite peanut butter, marmite flavoured rice cakes, and now marmite houmous! (Recent update, I have now discovered Marmite Cream Cheese at M&S!) Don’t get me wrong, having lived in Asia for the last ten … Read more
Ever ones for a good photo opportunity, we’ve arrived! Hee hee! 😁 Altogether Too Beautiful! Well what can I say about the Maldives!? It’s truly everything you think it’s going to be and more! White sandy beaches, crystal clear turquoise waters, blue skies, palm trees, sharks, turtles, Manta rays, fish of all descriptions. Quite simply … Read more
It’s 4.45am and I am excitedly getting the last of my little backpack ready for the next 23 days! Today my Sister & I fly to Kathmandhu in Nepal. We’re staying at a place called Thamel in the heart of Kathmandhu for a couple of days as we explore the local area and tomorrow head … Read more
We started coming to Phuket back in 2010 when we first left the UK. The first trip was just a two week holiday on route to Australia. It rained the entire time but I absolutely fell in love with the place. The climate was amazing, the people so friendly with nothing being too much trouble, … Read more
‘Nat – It’s Mark Zuckerburg’! I shouted loudly to my sister Natalie who was at the bottom of the steps, contemplating whether to walk up and join me on my journey to Watch Tower 1. She looked up and shouted back even louder ‘Are you sure, it looks like Chris Martin!’ To be fair the … Read more
With a desire to start 2016 off in a very special way, we (being myself, my partner and my 9 year old) decided to book a trip to the beautiful Surin Islands where we would spend 4 days camping, snorkelling and meeting and learning about the Moken People (or sea gypsies as they are better … Read more