Feb
05
Click clack. Click clack. I love the sound of a loom being worked and the magic that is made as exquisite textiles are created out of simple threads. ‘Ock Pop Tok’ means ‘East meets West’ in Lao and the beautiful fabrics produced on the looms at the Ock Pop Tok weaving centre in Luang Prabang in …
Jul
22
Set among luxuriant gardens on a sprawling property in Khon Kaen, in Thailand’s northeastern Isaan region, Lom Laeng Villa, a modern interpretation of a traditional Isaan house, was our ‘home away from home’ at boutique hotel Supanniga, a Relais & Chateaux member. We only stayed a night in Khon Kaen on our Isaan road trip, however, …
Aug
05
We may have decided not to use guidebooks as part of our local travel experiment, but we’re certainly not discarding the map, which, as far as we’re concerned, is often all you ever need to explore a city. We bought this cool little ‘Not For Tourists’ guide to New York City primarily for its maps. …
Apr
19
Exploring the food of a destination is a great way to dig deeper into a culture and get beneath the skin of a place, so we decided to do a foodie walking tour of the specialty shops of the Haute Marais neighbourhood, where established artisanal food producers are creating fashionable new products out of traditional …
Mar
07
Churros – also known as calentitos de patatas, papitas, porras, and ‘Spanish donuts’ by foreigners – are sold by vendors in the plaza outside the old Mercado Central de Abastos, the central market in Jerez. Locals line up to buy them – even in the cold and rain, as they did today – by the …
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