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Loginn: a Floating Hotel in Stockholm

July 28, 2016September 13, 2016 Europe, Featured, History, Life in Sweden, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Travelling Loginn Hotel, Maritime history, stockholm, sweden, unusual hotels

Spread across 14 islands the city of Stockholm has arisen from the sea, so it seems rather fitting to stay on the water rather than next to it when you visit the stunning Swedish capital. This

Memories: Two Years in India (Part 3)

June 4, 2016June 22, 2016 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

Memories: Two Years in India (Part 1)

May 7, 2016May 28, 2016 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

Mountain Flight Over the Himalayas

April 27, 2016April 28, 2016 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

A Weekend in India’s Wine Region

April 19, 2016April 19, 2016 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

Meet Arrowhead: Queen of Ranthambhore National Park

April 2, 2016December 16, 2016 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

Glamping at Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve

March 27, 2016April 1, 2016 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

Why Kathmandu Needs Tourists to Return in 2016

February 13, 2016September 11, 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

Aurora Borealis: 7 Things To Know Before You Go

January 31, 2016March 28, 2016 Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Nature, Photography, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling arctic, arctic circle, aurora, aurora borealis, iceland, lapland, northern lights, northern lights apartments, porjus, sweden

Experiencing the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is on many people’s bucket list and, when seen, they offer a tantalising display of nature at her most beautiful. But, seeking the notoriously elusive aurora can be a

Yala National Park: On Safari in Sri Lanka

January 24, 2016March 28, 2016 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

Sri Lanka’s Best Beaches

January 17, 2016April 3, 2016 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

My Best Travel Moments of 2015 in Photographs

December 31, 2015March 28, 2016 Featured, Travelling 2015, ayurveda, expat, goa, hikkaduwa, holi, holidays, india, KARE, kerala, manali, Mumbai, nepal, palolem, sri lanka, tourism, travel, traveler, Traveller, unawatuna

It’s that time of year again; the time to reflect on the year gone by, and to look forward to the year ahead. It’s a cliché to do so, but I think it is important

Perspectives: Why Single Indian Women Should Travel to Thailand

October 31, 2015March 29, 2016 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

Copenhagen: Is it Europe’s Coolest City?

September 18, 2015March 28, 2016 Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, Nature, Travelling 7 reasons, Christiania, cool cities, coolest city in Europe, copenhagen, denmark, Nyhavn, travel

Few could disagree that Copenhagen is one of Europe’s coolest cities, if not the coolest. Somehow it manages to balance an old-world charm stemming back to childhood readings of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales, with

5 Reasons to Ride a Segway around Prague

June 28, 2015March 19, 2017 Blogging, Europe, Featured, Travelling city break, CzechRepublic, europe, prague, Segway, tour, tourism, travel, Traveller

Hands up if you think that Segway tours are a bit lame. I’ll admit that I have always been judgemental of people who take Segway tours, so when my friend suggested that we take one

How Mumbai is (slowly) Making Me A Better Person

June 3, 2015March 28, 2016 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

Summer’s Coming, and I’m Going to Europe!

May 2, 2015May 2, 2015 Europe, Featured, Plans, Travelling berlin, copenhagen, cornwall, denmark, england, estonia, europe, germany, hamburg, prague, stockholm, summer, summer getaways, sweden, tallinn, travel, uk, united kingdom, västerås

In June, heavy monsoon rains will saturate the streets of Mumbai, so I am doing what most other foreign teachers here do—leaving India for the summer. And what better place to go than Europe? In contrast

5 Reasons to Visit Shimla

April 17, 2015March 28, 2016 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

Around the World in 26 Letters: My Travel Alphabet

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 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

Palolem, It’s Good to be Back!

April 6, 2015October 5, 2015 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