The Former Soviet Union, the USSR, winner of a billion medals at the Olympics, KGB, dodgy accents in James Bond films. I shouldn’t idealise things. Although I end up doing...
I spent my Sunday shopping; the mission (which UH chose to accept) was to find decent winter boots and a black fitted turtle neck. First stop, the souvenir shop looking...
Yuvah Noel Harari’s Sapiens is a cracker of a book! Of course recommended by Useless Husband, the half with the intellect and taste to pick something like this up while...
There’s the graceful Loy Krathong, the floating white lanterns at New Year, flower shows, night bazaars but nothing beats the mother of all celebrations…SONGKRAN!! Songkran can inspire joy, fear or...
My husband has problem with noise. A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH NOISE! In the early years, I was worried, afraid even that this would become our unraveling (that and the fact...
So I live in Mae Sot, described as “not like Thailand” by some local Thais. I see their point when half the population are from Myanmar, 20 minutes across the...
More old photos from an old laptop taken by the defunct, not so sorely missed old camera. Chance and design- was attending a work thing in Denmark and went to...
For someone who dreamt of travelling forever, well a lot, I’ve become quite disenchanted by airports these last few years. I used to love the whole shebang, the ticket wedged...