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Here in Varanasi — We arrived in Varanasi after a week in the mountains and a 22 hour train journey. It was five weeks into our India trip. We were tired. Tired of travelling on a tight budget, tired of sleeping in depressing rooms, and tired of eating curry for almost every meal. […]

Here in Varanasi

Adh Kumbh Mela — You probably haven’t heard of Haridwar but anyone who has seen Karl Pilkington’s ‘An Idiot Abroad’ will remember his obsession with the ‘babas’ at a big Hindu festival. That was the Haridwar Kumbh Mela which is a mass Hindu pilgrimage to bathe in the sacred Ganges and is one […]

Here in Haridwar

Camel trip in Jaisalmer — Check out our blog post on Jaisalmer and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos.

Jaisalmer vlog

3-ingredient gluten free cookies! — I call these ‘magic cookies’. Not because they are the best cookies I’ve ever had (they’re not), but because of my amazement that you can make biscuits without any flour or butter! They are gluten and dairy free but more importantly they can be made using three simple and […]

Peanut cookies

We love Koh Mak! — I think Koh Mak is the most beautiful Thai island we’ve visited yet. It doesn’t have the dramatic limestone cliffs of the Andaman coast or Koh Chang’s teeming jungly mountains. Actually, there is nothing particularly grand or spectacular about this particular version of paradise. But the serenity of palm […]

Here on Koh Mak

Our little Welsh holiday — The middle week of our 24 day holiday in the UK was spent on the edge of Wales’ picturesque Brecon Beacons. Our cottage was accessible by a ludicrously steep road that had the less powerful cars among us rolling back for a second go at a few of the sharp […]

Our little Welsh holiday

Cake>Egg — So I made a tart in an egg cup. Because who needs soldiers when you have pastry?!

Simple but delicious recipe for Cardamon Shortbread — A very sophisticated biscuit Because I have no oven and because homemade biscuits are five trillion times better than shop bought biccies, I made these in a saucepan. This is not the most efficient way to make biscuits and there is really no reason to do it if […]

Cardamon Shortbread

Masala Chai — As a general rule, I drink tea and coffee black and I never ever take sugar. In the course of falling in love with Nepal however, I drank gallons of this sweet milky goodness. Back in sweaty Thailand, it’s now rainy season and as the temperature is dropping, […]

Inspired by Nepal: Masala Chai

DSC_0718 (1) — After a rather long settling in period in our new town, we’ve taken up some exercise classes which have become a big part of our weekly routine. We’ve found that they are really fun and really rewarding, largely for reasons not related to exercise. Turning up to the first session […]

The Unexpected Perks of Exercise Classes

Best things to do in Kanchanaburii — Kanchanaburi is often overlooked when planning Thailand itineraries in favour of sandy beaches and northern hippy spots. It was on a rusty public bus somewhere between Kanchanaburi and Nakhon Sawan that we thought we might like to make this beautiful country our home for a while so perhaps we’re […]

What to do in Kanchanaburi

Come in for a cuppa — Welcome to our new home on the world wide web, come in for a cuppa why don’t you? I’ve got some biccies somewhere… We have decided to merge our two blogs into one site where you can catch up with what we’re doing as well as finding videos, recipes and […]

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