Moscow for cheap
Moscow has been ranked the fourth most expensive city in the world (see here), something that doesn’t surprise me at all. When I visited the Russian capital for a working trip a few years back, I...
Category: photos
Road trip, USA
Road trip- two of my favourite words, when put together. There’s nothing quite like dropping everything, grabbing a map and a friend or two and jumping into a car. This might sound strange, but...
This week’s photo- Sunset over Halong Bay
This was taken on a cool evening in September. Strangely enough, there weren’t very many mosquitoes that night so we slept on the top deck of the boat, under the stars. Nothing quite like...
This week’s photo- Jayavarman and me, Cambodia
This was taken in Bayon, one of the temples in Angkor. The big guy is the Khmer king Jayavarman VII (1125-1215), whose face can be seen on towers and pillars throughout the temple. (There...
People at work
One of the best things about travelling is that we get to see how the rest of the world lives. People fascinate me; even when I’m at home, I love sitting in cafes just...
This week’s photo- New Orleans
A bus stop along Canal Street in New Orleans. Love the colours!
Kaikoura
Kaikoura, New Zealand, is a great little place. It’s not very large at all- you can cover the entire town on foot in under 15 minutes. That’s of course, provided you don’t stop in...
100% Pure
I haven’t been to very many countries but of all the places I’ve been to, my all-round favourite has to be New Zealand. If I were to migrate, it would probably be to NZ,...
This week’s photo- Chilies
I was in a vegetable market in Terengganu, Malaysia when I saw this huge mound of fresh chillies at one of the stalls. Red and green really go well together.
Kids by the river, Laos
This photo makes me laugh every time I look at it: This was taken somewhere in Laos, during a short hike about three hours from Luang Prabang. We had just stopped at a...
