Touring a moon-aligned-volcanic-soil coffee farm, Panama.
NERD ALERT. Now I know the title of this post is pretentious as hell, and really, I don’t mean to be ‘that girl’, but I do bloody love coffee, and if you do too, I hope you will enjoy this post. Yes...
View ArticleHow not to be a dick while staying in a hostel
I’m three quarters of the way through my backpacking trip in central America, and as I sit here in my pants eating refried beans from the tin, I’m reflecting on my experiences in hostels, which if I...
View ArticleTetley tea tasting with a mad Scottish chef on a river in France
Those lovely tea botherers at Tetley recently sent me (well actually it wasn’t that recent, they’ve just been hanging around for far too long on my bedroom floor, unfortunately looking like condom...
View ArticleStumbling up the path of yoga. Goa, January 2018.
I’m not sure if I could have been in more of a mess when I turned up to the first morning of my month of yoga teacher training at Sampoorna yoga in Goa. I could dance around the point here to never...
View ArticleRukgala Retreat AKA paradise, Sri Lanka.
I have oh so modestly coined this boutique hotel adorning the side of a cacti covered rock just outside of Kandy ‘paradise’. Of course there is always trouble in paradise, but this place does a pretty...
View ArticleAshburnham Tea Estate, boutique hotel review, Sri Lanka.
Although disappointed to no longer be able meet the on-estate elephant (don’t even ask), I was instead enchanted to meet Mr Das, who after managing this spectacular working tea estate in the hill...
View ArticleA speed date with Theva Residency, Kandy
The first thing that leaps to mind when re-calling my ‘speed date’ with Theva, is the delightfulness of its staff. Yes it was a quiet time of the year which helped, but every single one of the staff...
View ArticleDhaka, Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh. The most densely populated city in the world, in a country suffering unbelievable hardships from the effects of flooding, and what at the time seemed like creeping, inescapable...
View ArticleSolo Movement Musings
Standing at a busy local Sri Lankan bus station, caught unprepared given the looming position of the front facing sun, waiting for an already late bus to hopefully arrive, I wonder how much longer my...
View ArticleOverindulgence
‘Overtourism’ just made it into the Urban Dictionary. Sweet… While I don’t have the mental capacity right now to disappear up the magic banyan tree and skip along the many cause and effect branches of...
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