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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

How to Stay Safe in Thailand

Advice, Asia, Beaches, Featured, safety, Travelling female safety, keeping safe, safety, thailand, travelling safely

I rarely write posts like this, but in the wake of the brutal murder of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao I feel compelled to write about the topic of safety

10 Awesome Movie Locations Around The World

Asia, Europe, Featured, Nature, Photography, Travelling argentina, bali, bogota, bourne supremacy, brazil, breakfast at tiffany's, buenos aires, cambodia, casa rosada, colombia, eat pray love, evita, film, glencoe, glenfinnan, goa, harry potter, iceland, iguazu, india, lara croft, location, maya bay, movie, mr and mrs smith, new york city, NYC, palolem, phi phi lei, siem reap, skyfall, ta prohm, thailand, the beach, the mission, tiffany's, tomb raider, ubud, viaduct, walter mitty

When I travel I don’t deliberately seek out places that have been used as film locations, but every now and then I happen to stumble into one. Here is a round-up of the 10 best

The Jim Thompson House, Bangkok

Asia, Food and Drink, History, Nature, Tradition, Travelling bangkok, house, jim thompson, silk, thailand

When I was a student we used to visit a restaurant called Jim Thompson’s. It was an Asian fusion restaurant that was well known in my university town, not only for good food, but also

War Museums: Meaningful or Macabre?

Travelling a-bomb dome, berlin wall, bridge over river kwai, cambodia, cheung euk, coventry cathedral, germany, hellfire pass, hiroshima, japan, kanchanaburi, killing fields, kymer rouge, memorials, thailand, Tseul sleng, uk, war museums

Visiting a war museum is not a pleasant or comfortable experience and I have left the ones I have visited in tears. Many of the images and artefacts are deeply disturbing, exposing me to atrocities

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