Small, specific and local attractions for towns and destinations through our travel and expat living.
While backpackers and expats always complain about “the last thing Thailand needs is more malls”, for locals they are no doubt a godsend, as an escape from the relentless heats of the city, as they bring a new lease of life to Korat in the daytime. And recently the Central Plaza Mall in Korat became …
A new year, a new adventure. Only this year it was a less likely destination, and an even lesser likely adventure, as we take another… step backwards, this time myself seeking full-time employment in the U.K. Which was overall a rather depressing and degrading experience, but it was necessary to test the water for a …
For the first half of this year I was based in Bangor, Northern Ireland, where my daily routine was similar to that of a retiree. Each morning I would wake at 05:00AM, to do some blogging, before joining the old folk of my family on their rotating itinerary of Bangor cafes for breakfast. I’ve been to a lot …
This morning I woke to frost on the ground and left the house with 3’c temperatures outside. It’s hardly t-shirt weather here and I was wearing an arctic expedition jacket, as I’m still reacclimatised to the weather here. But it was sunny, which means summer is coming and the usual grey skies and misery of …
I don’t fly. So when in February 2017 my daughter sent me an Email with details of a round-the-world cruise the following January I was quite excited. The cruise would visit 5 continents and 40 plus countries or territories most of which I had never visited. I booked it immediately and on a cold Friday …
Continuing from the Transatlantic Cruise and French Polynesia and Pacific Cruise, we left Darwin on the 4th of March (Day 61) and set sail for our Asia and Indian Ocean Cruise. Our first stop was the Indonesian Island of Komodo the home of the notorious Komodo dragon the largest living lizard in the world. On leaving …
Around the World in 120 Days: Asia and Indian Ocean Read More »
As we left the Suez Canal, after our Asia and the Indian Ocean leg, of our Round-the-World Cruise (and the Transatlantic Cruise and French Polynesia and Pacific Cruise before that). We began the final stage a ten-day crossing of the Mediterranean and then on to London. We were mainly at sea but had three more ports to …
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I have in fact spent most of my life in Northern Ireland, given I was born here, so you’d think I would have covered a fair few of the below destinations and attractions in my lifetime. Yet ironically, it wasn’t until recent years, when living in Asia, that I ticked off most of the destinations …
With Brexit, the hammering of the British pound, and just the U.K. economy going somewhat down the crapper, it has become a whole lot cheaper to travel in the U.K. through the past days. And this is why we have been doing so, including our recent road trip through the Scottish Highlands, and just various …
As I reflect on the cruise I realise that I have just missed 4 months of the coldest and most miserable winter for years. Instead, we travelled 35,000 miles in temperatures rarely below the mid-twenties and visited 42 ports on 5 continents. We changed our watches 28 times as we moved through different time zones …
