I’m aware, it’s not particularly easy to look drop-dead gorgeous when juggling plane flights, long train rides, and sweaty bus journeys from H-E-double-hockey-sticks. If I had a dollar for every time I felt like a (not so) hot mess during my travels, covered in dust, DEET, sweat, and who knows what else, I’d have like, […]
The Maldives Unlike You’ve Ever Seen it Before: Local Style
Newlywed couples stroll along white sand beaches, hand in hand. Their bungalow sits over the water, with bleached white sheets and a dedicated staff who serve them steak dinners, rent them expensive jet skis, and offer them boat trips with other foreign guests. They spend $3,000 per night on this bungalow, but it’s a once-in-a-lifetime […]
Socially Awkward? Please Travel Alone
I remember the first moment that I was truly happy to be a solo traveler. It was in Chiang Mai in the third month of my trip (I’ve now been traveling solo for 15 months) and a friend and I had spent all day motorbiking around the surrounding mountains. They were beautiful, but come nightfall we […]
8 Reasons Why I’m so Hopelessly in Love with Pai
Pai, just a few hours outside of Thailand’s second biggest city, Chiang Mai, is a hippie oasis I’ve been dreaming about ever since I left. I had visited for 5 days almost exactly a year before, and had loved it so much that it made my very short list of places I just had to […]
Thousands of Lanterns Become Stars in the Sky
It was a rainy day in London when I impulse bought a ticket back to Chiang Mai. I had been wanting to return to Asia and was choosing between Phnom Penh in Cambodia and returning to Pai in northern Thailand. Pai won out and I’m so glad it did. A few days later, while chatting […]