Part of why I love living in Chiang Mai is the fascinating people I’ve been fortunate enough to meet. There’s something about this place that attracts people that are living by their own rules, working on their own projects and truly going after their passions. Many of them also happen to be doing a lot […]

Bangkok is a city of extremes. You can see luxury apartments next to metal shacks, 5-star dining establishments across from cheap street food, a constant change between hot humid air and freezing cold AC, decorative Buddhist temples down the street from strip clubs…Bangkok has it all. Because of this, the city is one of the […]

Let me first say that I wear Thai fisherman’s pants on a daily basis. I always have a nice sheen going because I’m always sweating to some degree, I never try and fix my hair because I’m just going to put a helmet over it anyway, my clothes now often have white dog hair clinging […]

The overcast skies and cool mistiness of the mountains were a welcome change from the hellishly hot temperatures – 113 degrees! – of Bagan. After being dropped off near the famous Inle Lake in the Shan Hills of Burma around 3:30 in the morning (we were glad to already have accommodation booked) we didn’t really know […]

This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Alexa, an American expat who was recently working and living in Marrakech.  Morocco was a chaotic, overwhelming and amazing place to live for the three months I called it home. It isn’t for everyone but it has tons of personality and I loved living there. I did a work away […]

Whenever I go somewhere new I like to read about it. Ideally, I would read up on a place before I get there to get a better sense of what I’m getting into, but more often than not I end up reading while am traveling or after I’ve gotten back home and want to make […]

One thing you’ll quickly notice after spending some time in Chiang Mai is that there is a thriving yoga and wellness community here. There’s something about the combination of the laid-back lifestyle, sun everyday, gorgeous natural surroundings, a Buddhist culture where even the wildest high school students will sit still in silent meditation, and abundance of […]

This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Julie, an American expat who’s currently working and living in London.  It’s getting to be summer in London. The days are getting long, the nights are short. It’s warm enough out for the windows to be cracked during the night, which inevitably means I am woken early by the […]

As someone who had never had a pet before last year, I always thought pet-friendly indoor spaces were sort of strange. Frankly, I still do, but on a lazy Sunday when we wanted to go out for a long lunch I was intrigued about a dog-friendly cafe in Chiang Mai I had read about – […]

This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Rebecca, an Australian expat who’s currently working and living in Dubai.  I live out of the popular expat hubs of downtown and Dubai Marina, in a residential area called Al Barsha. It is less crowded, there aren’t any towering skyscrapers and it just has a more ‘local’ feel […]