20 reasons why a week in Malaysia can be a trip of a lifetime

You’ll enjoy all kinds of street food (be it Malay, Chinese or Indian) Marvel at the architecture of the beautiful world’s tallest twin towers Spend your morning feeding a baby elephant at the Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary and your afternoon in a cool petting zoo just down the road You’ll…

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My Bucket List of Things to experience

Everyone has a bucket list and I am lucky to have ticked quite a few off as below: swimming in the Jellyfish Lake in Palau swimming with whale sharks in Donsol, Philippines swimming with nurse sharks in Belize swimming, kissing and catching stingrays in Cayman Islands swimming in an underground…

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Our Easter trip exploring different towns on Lago Maggiore

We were cracking our heads to figure out what to do and where to go over Easter 2017. We weren’t as quick as usual with booking flights and going anywhere within Europe seemed too much to pay for a weekend. As I’ve been wanting to visit Ascona and see Lago…

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Why I am not in a hurry to return to Vietnam

Premise 1: Anthony Bourdain loves Vietnam. Premise 2: I love Anthony Bourdain. Conclusion: So, I too will love Vietnam yes? Unfortunately not. For many years I couldn’t understand why it seemed as if everyone who had been to Vietnam loved it so much but I simply didn’t. I had great Vietnamese friends…

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Our journey across New Zealand’s north island

Planning a trip can be really time consuming especially if you want to make the most out of being in a far flung place which took you 40 hours to get to having dragged two kids under the age of 2 with you. The flight to New Zealand was Noah’s…

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Taxi drivers: the unsung ambassadors (for the right reasons?)

In many cases, one’s exposure to locals while traveling would be the people involved in the service industry – in a taxi, at a restaurant, in a hotel, at the airport, etc. Here are some of my notable (positive and negative) experiences dealing with taxi drivers around the world. 1- Trying…

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Inspired by Iceland

“Inspired by Iceland” is the perfect tourism slogan for the country with the northern most capital in the world. My recent second trip to Iceland was very different from the first one. I experienced a new form of travel and found out that I am still quite an adrenaline junkie at heart (although I wouldn’t do another…

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