I’d always imagined Madagascar as total jungle, narrowly framed by tropical beaches. Anything but! Especially nowadays. The island, which is a bit bigger than France and about twice the size of Arizona, now devotes over 70% of the land to farming. Most farms are small family units – there’s somewhere between 2.4 and 2.5 MILLION […]
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Did you know that Phuket is ranked in the Top Twenty most visited places in the World, welcoming over 10 million tourists per year! Most of those visitors base themselves at the beaches, never making it in to the town itself. That’s a pity – because the island’s capital is lovely and it’s old town […]
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They’d NEVER get away with this at home!! How often do you do a double take, on your travels, at those iffy situations and locations you find yourself in. I do feel, at times, that we have lost the plot here with Health and Safety – protective fences and barricades, handrails everywhere, safety notices at […]
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Everyone is complaining all week about the rain – horrendous showers with enough of a gap in between to trick one into believing the worst has passed! We’re hosting two new pals we made in Madagascar last year – they’ve been like drowned rats since they arrived from the US and Canada earlier in the […]
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Picture the royal barge making its way along the Chao Phraya River from Bangkok to the summer palace at Bang Pa-In. It’s 1880 and the boat is carrying Queen Sunanda – the 19 year old first wife of King Chulalongkorn – and their daughter, princess Kannabhorn, not yet 2 years old. The boat runs into […]
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