Last year, I decided to brave the drive into the dirt road in Buangkok where the last of Singapore's rural villages were built, since...

The dramatic skyline with black, or rather, sooty gothic buildings and spires in Edinburgh held promise of an interesting stay, and...

Three Aprils ago, enroute London from Lancashire, my husband and I made a stopover at Chester. I simply fancied visiting Chester because...

Decluttering during Covid-19 pandemic lockdown or "circuit breaker" as it's called in Singapore, yielded its rewards. A couple of...

If I have to use one word to describe the mountain city of Dalat in southern Vietnam, it would be delectable. With budget travel...

I have always dreamed of driving a car. That impossible dream came true in 1999 when I got my driving licence after a decade of...

The warmth and charm of the people from the land of 7,000 plus islands bid me go the second time, not to rub shoulders with ministers,...

I never really understood what "standing in the gap"meant until I got fascinated by the endless rows of hedges wrapped around pasture in...

The lean man, bearing a rope about an inch thick and longer than his length of some five and a half feet, looked intently at us. Almost...

My maiden experience of falling snow was akin to the flush of first love -- you can’t have enough of it. Before I drifted into sleep on...

One of my favourite food has to be glutinous rice (or sticky rice) -- cooked in different shapes and forms. From muah chee (a chewy...

A view to die for. This was literally a picturesque late autumn view from our Airbnb host Roy's apartment at Dreggsallmenningen in...

Can you possibly find plain, good handmade oven-baked bread for less than 10 US cents? Staying at Chinatown in District 5 in Ho Chi Minh...

My ride to Cardigan Bay in Wales was punctuated by a stop at Fernhill Lodge where Sylvia served up her inimitable version of crackling...