• Travel
  • A week in Limbo: back to Bangkok

    What to do? After a nearly a week of trying to decide which route to take around Asia I’ve realised that whichever route I choose I will meet a whole host of different people and even if I take the same route as others I’ve met, I am unlikely to have the same experience. That’s the beauty […]

  • Portsmouth
  • Beckett’s Wine Bar, Southsea

    chocolate & nut bread & butter pudding

    UPDATE: 2019 – This review is of the old original Beckett’s, not the new refurbished one. It’s probably for younger people such as Helen who enjoys going there along with her pals, especially for the unlimited Prosecco brunch! Or, wilder people than myself and my husband 😉 I’ve been a couple of times and it […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This Week’s Sweet Treats: 14/02/2014

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites! Clockwise from top left: 1. An unusual tasting Mooncake from Chinatown, Thailand. Read about Helen’s time in Bustling Bangkok. 2. Sweet palm cakes from a street market in Pai, Thailand. Read about the amazing adventure Helen’s having in ‘Pai in Love‘. […]

  • Travel
  • Pai in Love – backpacking tales

    And so it begins After a sad farewell I headed four hours north of Chiang Mai to the small town of Pai situated in the Mae Hong Son region of Thailand. Popular with backpackers, Pai was relatively unknown until a few years back but it is now popular with tourists and Thai locals too and forms […]