by Kirsty | June 24, 2020 | Street Art, Thailand
Seeking out Bangkok’s street art in Talat Noi and Bang Rak neighbourhoods Along with my post about Chiang Mai’s street art, I put off writing about street art in Bangkok because it felt like such a daunting task. The population of Thailand’s capital is almost as...
by Kirsty | April 8, 2020 | history and culture
Introduction to UNESCO – some background information, what becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site involves and the pros and cons of being inscribed Often in our worldly travels we come across a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS). Some we visit deliberately, and...
by Kirsty | March 25, 2020 | Vietnam
The Ho Chi Minh cafe where Vietnamese men go to gossip whilst their birds learn new songs We first visited (and wrote about) the Saigon bird cafe a few years ago when we were working and living in Vietnam’s largest city (officially known as Ho Chi Minh City). Tucked...
by Mark | March 5, 2020 | Cambodia
The best places to visit in Cambodia beyond the temples of Angkor and the Killing Fields at Choeung Ek Many of you will already know that we are big fans of Cambodia and never need an excuse to return. We have been travelling to the kingdom since the early 1990s. I...
by Mark | November 3, 2019 | Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Street Art, Taiwan, Thailand
Derelict spaces provide the perfect canvas for graffiti and street art It was a recent (October 2019) visit to a derelict villa in central Croatia that was once frequented by Tito that prompted me to write about street art in abandoned buildings. It was late afternoon...
by Kirsty | February 26, 2019 | Ukraine
Places to visit in Kyiv: A guide for independent travellers Serious statement: we could live in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv (sometimes spelt at Kiev, the Russian transliteration). On a scale of one to ten, it hits a nine for us and, along with London, Belgrade, Chiang Mai...
