Oh deer! It’s time for my 100th post. Let’s start by thanking all my deerest readers, you make me deerlirious of joy, thank you for existing. <3 I have a story for you. Once upon a time, there was an epic city in a far, far away land. It so happened that one day, the […]
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Kyoto’s golden temples and crimson leaves
Before I moved to Asia, I would stalk people’s pictures and blogs and jealously look at them in, on and around various exotic, fascinating, strange temples of curious, foreign religions. I’d be in awe – the incredible colours, the picturesque tilt of the roofs, the marvellous costumes, and wonder about the fascinating stories behind these alien […]
Tokyo – the modern, the historic and the cute
I woke up in Tokyo on my first day in Japan, feeling slightly anxious and out of my comfort zone. Tokyo. It’s pretty big. (The most populous metropolitan area in the world, with a population of 38,6 million in the metropolitan area. That’s nearly eight Finlands.) I’d arrived at the hostel at around 1am, following a […]
The joyful cable cars of Oriental Venice
Before I begin, please forgive me. The title is misleading. The joyful cable cars are not actually in the Oriental Venice, but I have been sat here for way too long trying to think of a title for this blog post (I eventually decided against my dad’s suggestion of ‘Ngong Ping Pong Kong‘). The joyful […]
The Elephants of Ayuthaya
I had wanted to leave Bangkok, and a place called Ayuthaya an hour away sounded promising – the ancient capital which housed thirty-three kings in the Middle Ages, ruined by the Burmese. It was a town with ruins of old temples spread about – sounded exciting and historically enlightening! I went there with fellow-hosteller Dan […]
Top 10 of Bangkok
One week in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster… I can feel an angel sliding next to me!! In all fairness, I did sometimes feel like an angel, the guardian version, whilst walking down Soi Cowboy with any of my guy friends. The, krhm, bar girls rarely harass guys who have a girl with them… Well, usually […]