Penang street art

Take Some time to Plan What you Want to See There are hundreds of these things, and the number is growing.  The Street Art of Penang is mostly on Penang Island but some (not featured here) are on the mainland too.  Don’t try and see them all. Spend a bit of time reading this article […]

Back home

We are back home after travelling for almost eighteen months and a few days ago, I met my friend. We hadn’t seen each other for a year or longer. We had been travelling, of course. and she is an oil and gas engineer working on fortnightly or monthly shifts in the desert. As we were […]

Cruising Mekong on a slow boat

The Trip When I posted on Instagram that we were going to Laos, I received lots of recommendations to go on a slow boat on the Mekong river. Ok then. If it’s a must, then we must. So I investigated. I looked at the map and saw that it makes sense to enter Laos from […]

Singapore and accommodation

We are in Singapore again – Yay!!! And the biggest challenge in Singapore is to find affordable accommodation close to Gardens by the Bay. Last time when we were in Singapore we stayed in Chinatown. It was a great location with lots of options to eat but by the end of the day, girls were […]

Mr Fox

Do you remember my Instagram post from a few weeks back about a fox who visited us and played tricks with our shoes? Yes we had a fox – past tense – now we don’t. I miss seeing him outside our window. He was visiting almost every morning and late night. But I caught him […]

World schooling, home schooling and unschooling

Exactly one year ago, the only thing I was worried about was my girls’ schooling. I wanted to move them to a different school because I wasn’t totally happy with the school they attended.  The schools I called didn’t even want to talk to me as they said their waiting lists were so long that they wouldn’t even […]