In my life, I have been blessed to be able to study abroad, work abroad and to travel extensively overseas. I’ve been a TEFL instructor, a tour guide and a study abroad director. I have experienced the ins and outs of the food and beverage industry on several continents. I’ve backpacked Europe and traveled alone […]
Social Media on the Road
It’s the early 1950s. A young man from America in a dusty derby cap hops out of a cab on a rainy night in Paris, and hurriedly shuffles through puddles and cobblestone to a dimly lit phone booth to place a call to his travel agent back in Florida. He’d just met a girl in […]
Check out Bangkok’s biggest shopping destination yet
Move over Siam Square and CentralWorld, the brand new 750,000-square-metre ICONSIAM, which was unveiled to the public on 10 November, is Bangkok’s latest, biggest, most glamorous retail and residential address. This is Bangkok’s biggest retail space. Image by ICONSIAM Situated on a 400-metre stretch of the Chao Phraya River, the mega-development is all about the […]
You can trek or take a paddle boat to these new tented villas in the Himalayas
A paddle-boat ride across Nepal’s Phewa Lake will soon lead travellers to luxury eco-villas in the Himalayas. A rendering of the new eco villa in Nepal. Image by Pavilions Hotels & Resorts Opening 22 November, the Pavilions Himalayas Lake View will open, becoming what the company described as “the first luxury tented eco-villas of their […]