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Category: Asia

Goodbye, Serendipity

Asia, Beaches, Featured, Heartbreak, Life, Relationships, Travelling cambodia, heartbreak, love, occheuteal, relationships, serendipity, sihanoukville

In March 2008 I visited a place that changed my life. Of course, back then bracing myself for every bump in the dusty road I had no idea where the rusted bus careening wildly along

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Memories: Two Years in India (Part 3)

Asia, Featured, India, Life in India, Travelling india, memories

I left India yesterday and have some emotions to deal with. You will hear many things about India, such as how you will both love and hate it at the same time, that you get

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Memories: Two Years in India (Part 2)

Asia, Featured, India, Life in India, Photography amber fort, elephant, india, memories, monkey, rajasthan, shimla, taj mahal

With my last month in India rapidly drawing its last breath, I realise that I have been rather slow at updating this series. (see Part 1) This is primarily down to what is known as

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Memories: Two Years in India (Part 1)

Asia, Featured, India, Life in India, Travelling india, reflections

It doesn’t seem all that long ago that I wrote a post announcing my move to India – a place I had often said I could never live, yet had now committed the next two years

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Mountain Flight Over the Himalayas

Asia, Featured, Nature, Travelling annapurna, flying, himalayas, nepal, pokhara

What do you do when you want to see the Himalayas, but you don’t have enough time to trek to them? This was my dilemma when I visited Nepal. Due to work commitments, I had

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A Weekend in India’s Wine Region

Asia, Featured, Food and Drink, India, Life in India, Travelling beyond sula, brut, drink, food, india, nashik, resort, sula, vineyard, wine

Last weekend was one of those times when I simply had to get out of Mumbai and, luckily for me, the weekend happened to be the Cheti Chand (Sindhi New Year) holiday, which gave me

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Meet Arrowhead: Queen of Ranthambhore National Park

Asia, Featured, India, Life in India, Nature, Photography, Travelling arrowhead, india, machli, rajasthan, Ranthambhore, ranthambore, Tiger, zone 4

I have done many amazing things during my time in India but seeing a tiger in the wild is definitely a highlight. Nothing sends shivers down the spine quite like the striking flash of orange emerging from

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Glamping at Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve

Asia, Featured, India, Nature, Travelling Incredible India, india, Jungle Safari Resort, Ranthambhore, Tiger, Tiger Safari

We arrived in Ranthambhore after a bumpy 3-hour drive from Jaipur airport, 160km away. The sun had set long before our GPS directions led us into a desolate area of scrub wilderness – pitch black

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Why Kathmandu Needs Tourists to Return in 2016

Advice, Asia, Featured, Travelling Durbar Square, Earthquake, Fuel Crisis, Kathmandu, nepal, tourism, travel, traveler, Traveller

“Visit Durbar Square in Kathmandu, but as there’s nothing left you shouldn’t pay the entrance fee.”  This was the advice given to me by a fellow traveller during my visit to Kathmandu, Nepal. I was told

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Yala National Park: On Safari in Sri Lanka

Asia, Featured, Nature, Travelling birds, elephants, mongoose, safari, spotted deer, SriLanka, tour, wild boar, wildlife, Yala, Yala National Park

Sri Lanka has an impressive array of wildlife for a country of its size,  and whilst most people tend to associate the tiny Indian Ocean island with honeymoon beach holidays,  safari tours are equally  big business. Of

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Sri Lanka’s Best Beaches

Asia, Beaches, Featured, Nature, Travelling beach, Blue Whale, Deliwala Mount Lavinia, Hikka Tranz, hikkaduwa, La Voile Blanche, Mirissa, sri lanka, SriLanka, turtle, unawatuna

I’ve been lucky enough to spend the last two Christmas holidays in Sri Lanka, the teardrop shaped island located off the coast of India. Living in Mumbai, I barely see the beach or even spend very much

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Perspectives: Why Single Indian Women Should Travel to Thailand

Advice, Asia, Beaches, Featured, Friends and Family, India, Life in India, Travelling Female Travel, india, Indian female travel, thailand, Travel to Thailand

Having been living and travelling overseas for, gulp, about 13 years now, I have met many people from many different places, all with great tales to tell. I have often thought of inviting them to

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Kare Ayurveda Retreat: Eat, Stretch, Love

Advice, Asia, Featured, Food and Drink, Health & Fitness, India, Life in India, Nature, Tradition, Working Overseas ayurveda, health, iyengar, KARE, lifestyle, mulshi lake, pune, retreat, yoga

Life in Mumbai can get pretty chaotic: it’s a big city, filled with—literally—millions of people. Like Raj says in ‘Big Bang Theory’: ‘it’s hot, and it's loud, and there are so many people! You have

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The Best Mumbai Street Food and Where to Try It

Advice, Asia, Featured, Food and Drink, Friends and Family, India, Life in India bademiya, elco, gastronomy, india, Mumbai, pani puri, pav bhaji, sada dosa, street food

If there is one thing you must do when you visit Mumbai it is to put all fears aside and try the street food; because, honestly? It’s simply the best street food that you will

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How Mumbai is (slowly) Making Me A Better Person

Asia, Featured, Life in India, Travelling india, learning, Life Lessons, Maximum City, Mumbai, Reflecting

I have been in Mumbai just shy of a year, which is—admittedly—a little too soon to write a post like this, but Mumbai is a city like no other. Often referred to as the ‘Maximum

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5 Reasons to Visit Shimla

Asia, Featured, India, Life in India, Travelling 5 reasons to visit shimla, advice, himalaya, india, mountains, shimla, shopping, top five, travel, travel list

When you've lived in chaotic Mumbai for almost 8 months, trust me, you start to long for open spaces, clear air and beautiful views, so when my parents came to visit at the end of

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Around the World in 26 Letters: My Travel Alphabet

Asia, Beaches, Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, History, Japan, Life in India, Life in Sweden, Literature, Nature, Photography, South America, Swedish Tourism, Top Ten, Travelling army, asia, atacama desert, aurora, bolivia, bosnia, bucharest, caribbean, chile, china, colombia, dracula, edinburgh, estonia, europe, fuji, gotland, Greece, holi, iceland, iguassu, iguazu falls, india, isle of skye, istanbul, japan, Jökulsárlón, kleftiko, lapland, machu picchu, mary king close, mostar, Mumbai, new york city, northern lights, NYC, ogmore, ogmore beach, ogmore by sea, parque tayrona, peru, qatar airways, romania, rurrenabaque, san blas, scotland, skye, sri lanka, stari most, sweden, taj mahal, tallinn, terracotta warriors, udaipur, unawatuna, valparaiso, visby, wales, waterfalls, xi'an, yamuna river, zostel

I’ve been travelling the world, on-and-off, for almost 16 years—ever since an adventurous 4 week train journey took me through Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic into Romania back in the days when

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Palolem, It’s Good to be Back!

Asia, Beaches, Featured, Life in India, Travelling beach, goa, holidays, india, palolem, tourism, travel

Generally, I prefer to travel to a new place rather than simply go back to the same destinations over and again. The only exception to this so far has been Sihanoukville, which was just too

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Stick Fishermen of Sri Lanka: Fishing for Dollars

Asia, Beaches, Featured, Tradition, Travelling culture, fishing, SriLanka, stick fishing, stilt fishing, tourism, travel

There are few things more exciting than seeing an iconic view of a place that you have travelled thousands of miles to visit, whether it’s the Eiffel Tower glittering in the night sky, a decorated

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Mumbai Festivals: Holi

Asia, Featured, Food and Drink, Friends and Family, Life in India, Partying celebrate holi in India, colour, festival, holi, india, Mumbai, travel

Having seen numerous documentaries and vivid photographs of people covered head-to-toe in brightly coloured powder I have wanted to experience Holi for many years. Out of all India’s many,many, festivals Holi is the most colourful

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Welcome!

My name is Elaine. I am a British teacher who left the UK to work overseas many years ago. So far I have taught in Japan, Vietnam, Sweden, India, and now Slovakia.

I make the most of my holidays to do the thing I love most…travel!

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

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