My first night in Koh Phi Phi for my 30th birthday was a bit of a fail: after briefly checking out the busy Ibiza Pool Party in the late afternoon I was too exhausted to function without a nap; unfortunately I was then too tired to get up and instead just turned off my alarm… Read More Koh Phi Phi for my 30th birthday
Over the last three years I’ve begun a pattern of 4-5 short trips a year to South-East Asia and Australia, replacing a previous and common tactic of one longer trip per year. People at work often laugh when I tell them I will soon be on another trip again – perhaps not realising that I’m… Read More Why I now prefer more frequent short trips to long trips
I had been planning yet another trip to Thailand for my 30th birthday, at least in part with the fully conscious intention of soothing the inevitable psychological trauma of entering my third decade with being mistaken for someone in her early twenties by twentysomething backpackers. This was to be a solid 2.5 week trip, so… Read More Don’t be Krabi in Ao Nang, Thailand
In a dramatic and unprecedented move, The Phillippines’ president, Rodrigo Duterte, has shut the entire island of Boracay to tourists for six months from April 2018. It is therefore more than high time I reported on my June 2017 trip there – a blog entry I have been putting off for a long time.