Sri Lanka

Will Sri Lanka be a colony again ?

My husband and I spent 7 days in Sri Lanka for the first time in beginning of December 2018.I had put together the itinerary myself and was for the first time a little bit anxious how it was going to be.Will it work? Would the contacts be reliable and was it silly not using an […]

Tea plantage

Cameron Highlands in Malaysia – a fantastic nature experience.

Three friends and I had planned this “girl trip” together and wanted to combine a visit to Kuala Lumpur where our host friend now lived after a year in Bangkok, with a few days in Cameron Highlands. We were really looking forward to some fresh air after the recent smog in Bangkok but also to […]

The temple-Angkor Wat-outside

First ever visit to Phnom Penh, Cambodia

by Monica Nilsson We had visited Siem Reap like many other tourists, mainly to visit Angkor Wat and wanted to do that while we still were living in SE Asia but had not yet visited Phnom Penh. To be quite honest with you I had no wish to go there for reasons I no longer […]

Field full of yellow roses

Appreciation and Reflections About my Home Country Sweden

“What I especially appreciate now is the fresh air, the number of cars,… the flowers fragrance here in Europe, the birds singing in springtime – the blackbirds especially. Open fields. The light.” When you live in Asia as a Swede after a large number of years, I often feel that I value different things in […]

Malsdives

Maldives – an Illusion of the Ultimate Dream Travel Destination?

What I will write now and tell about, for those of you who not yet have had the opportunity to get your dream journey come true, you may think I am a bit negative. If so, I apologise if I just ruined your dream trip and illusion. You just have to go there yourself to […]

Singapore

Singapore – Forever in our Hearts

When we first set down our feet on Singaporean ground back in 1999 it felt like walking straight into a sauna. I used to joke about it. “I haven’t felt this kind of steamy heat since back in school after 20 kids had just taken a hot shower all at once after a gymnastics lesson”. It was […]

Hanoi River

Four days exploring the vibrant daily life of Hanoi

Bless the long weekends in Thailand in December, which gives you a chance of travelling even more while you are here in Asia. We decided to go to Hanoi this year during Fathers Day celebration, since my husband had not been there before. I had been there many years ago with a group of girlfriends from […]

women yoga in the park

Wellness and a bit of psychology in parks

We all have different ways of dealing with the so-called grey days in our lives. It can be related to just anything from just a bad moody day to stress, sorrow and of course worst of all grief, that we all will go through in life sometimes. Different individuals find different ways of coping with […]