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Written By: Flora BakerMama watches the hole for red ants, chewing on a betel nut. She bends down to lift the upright log buried deep in the hole’s centre. She’s 67, worn to the colour of mahogany.The log is an old buffalo’s yoke. She and Papa...

When J and I first settled here in Turkey, our good friend Emine taught me two valuable life-lessons. The first came when she observed me ‘go into one’ when faced with the Byzantine bureaucracy and my very first, totally disinterested bur...

My husband and I just got home from a trip abroad (in my last post, I talked about the benefits of respite!).   We visited London, Wales and north eastern Spain.  It was a great break, but it was wonderful to come home, too.  Over the...

Note: This is a blog which I originally wrote for our company blog, at ABOUTAsiatravel.com/blog. You can access the original article here. The open-air market is teeming with early-morning life. It’s a photographer’s paradise—vibrant colors, m...

It's already Friday again with a new and long weekend upon us with the bank holiday in the UK (yay) so I thought I better share last weekend with you all, and quick! I love reflecting on our weekends together, our precious family time, where we sw...

Let me be honest about it. As a young girl who’s spent most of her summer vacations on the highway tagging along with her traveler parents, I understand what this means. No Mummy. Let’s wait for some more time… we might just spot a petrol pump...

Latest news on Sihanoukville Journal, an insider's view of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. I just finished writing Plato’s American Cave on my other blog and it reminded me that I’ve been wanting to write about village life in Sihanoukville for...

Does ant chalk really work? I decided to find out by holding a couple of basic experiments in our Thai village garden to see if the Chinese made, ‘Miraculous Insecticide Chalk’, would get right up an ant’s nose and send it packing...

For many westerners Thai village life is a chore to be endured when visiting their partner’s family and friends. Many expats and seasoned tourists find rural life in Thailand as dull as dishwater and extremely old hat. Then again, there are pe...

Village Life Painting...

I Went on a field trip with students to the Ethnographic Museum of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. The paintings on the top floor are among my favorite so far in Ethiopia. Perhaps the cartoon like violence couple with the expressions really touch...

"Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!It isn't fit for humans now,There isn't grass to graze a cow."Sir John BetjemanApologies to anyone living in Slough, but this rather unfair poem of Betjeman's came into my head as I was surveying our back gar...

desi Traveler desi Traveler - Family Travel Blog India- Nature- PhotographyMeet Saurabh Chatterjee: Traveler and Photographer Dear readers today we will showcase a unique traveler who has crisscrossed India’s remote corners and photographing her wo...

desi Traveler desi Traveler - Family Travel Blog India- Nature- PhotographyMeet Saurabh Chatterjee: Traveler and Photographer Dear readers today we will showcase a unique traveler who has crisscrossed India’s remote corners and photographing her wo...

2014 will see the 11 local councils in the Bodrum area merge into one large municipal council with one mayor overseeing all. As I mentioned before (click here), the candidates have been busy meeting and greeting in all the surrounding villages campai...

Gur Making...

Even spiders can't resist my bakingAh the annual curse of Halloween is upon us. As I've said before, I'm not a fan.And yet, this year something is different.It might have something to do with the village rules about Halloween. The protocol is to leav...

1980s Wiltshire, England: a new young family joins the prosperous conservative village of busy bodies and committees… but Alice finds herself drawn most into the gentry’s wayward daughter Clodagh…  This story would work better if it we...

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