Things to do in Krakow With Kids

Formerly the national capital and seat of kings, Kraków (English Cracow or Krakow) is still considered to be Poland’s capital of culture. I was born and raised in Lodz – another great polish city to visit, but Krakow stole my heart. As the nation’s major tourist destination, it almost seems to have been designed for […]

Things to do in Luang Prabang – With Kids or Without

  Luang Prabang sits at the confluence of the Nam Khan and Mekong rivers in northern Laos. It’s a beautiful place, like a timeshift into a romantic vision of historic Indochina. The architecture is a mix of the best of French colonial and Buddhist, so it comes as no surprise that the city is a […]

Things to do in Siem Reap with Kids or Without

Are you planning to explore Asia with family, while not trying Cambodia? We spent a few months exploring Cambodia with kids and had the most fun in Siem Reap. During our stay there, we saw the most famous Asian landmarks – Angkor Wat, ate weird food, did yoga retreats, and couldn’t have been happier! Read […]

Things to do in Oman with Kids or Without

Explore Muscat If you know the Middle East and the Arabian love of building skyscrapers in the desert, then Muscat may come as a surprise to you or a delight.  There is only one building in the whole city of more than nine stories. As if in penance for its 14 storey faux-pas, the Sheraton […]

Things to do in Kuching – With Kids or Without

Kuching is a city in the South-West of Malaysian Borneo, it’s the capital of Sarawak. Kuching (Kucing) means cat in Malay. We spend here a week and we enjoyed Kuching with kids. No one knows why the town is named “cat” (though there are different theories about it) but we do know that the name […]

IVF in India – My Success Story

India was the craziest and most amazing place I have been. India also had the single biggest impact on my life by giving me two beautiful daughters. We arrived in Bombay as newly-weds and working expats. We already knew that we would have to have an in-vitro conception, and before arriving in India we had […]

Misfat al Abriyeen

Misfat Al Abriyeen is a tiny hill village, high in the Hajar Mountains, which is located in Wilayt Al Hamra in A’Dakhiliyah Region. It is one of the oldest and prettiest settlements in Oman located approximately 1000 meters above sea level.  Mountain springs provide water for verdant agricultural terraces growing dates and bananas. This land of shade and […]

Charity Shops Shrewsbury

Are you trying to minimise our impact on Planet Earth, reduce our usage of plastic, packaging, energy and water?  We are.  It’s not always easy – but one of the simplest things we can all do is to reuse things that other people have bought new and then discarded.  This saves all the manufacturing and […]

Moroccan Bath – My experience of Hammam Mouassine in Marrakech

  Moroccan Bath – Moroccan Hammam I had always wondered about the Moroccan bath. I had experienced all kinds of fancy scrub treatments in Vietnam, Thailand and hammam spa in Oman. I had been in saunas and steam rooms.  But I had never been in a traditional Moroccan hammam steam bath. So in Morocco, I […]

Things to do in Rabat

Alongside Fez, Marrakesh, and Meknes, Rabat is one of the four royal cities of Morocco and is also its capital. The name means a “Fortified Place” and Rabat lives up to this with its spectacular ramparts. We spent a week there, finding and trying all that this Moroccan city has to offer, and if you are […]