A message from Thailand...

Dear Patrick, Greetings from Thailand! We are currently celebrating Songkran, probably Thailand’s most vibrant…and crazy in nice way…festival. And without doubt Chiang Mai is the best place to celebrate this festival and where better than Rachamankha located as it is within the old...

Asian Adventures…...

Brian, I know you are very well travelled but I understand your most recent trip was to two countries you’ve never been to before? How exciting!  Lizzie, I spent much of the eighties (how old do I sound!) travelling in and around South East Asia but at that time, both Vietnam and...

Hong Kong a Honeymoon H...

Never thought of Hong Kong as a honeymoon destination? Well us neither, but when we stopped off on the way to a distant Far East island, it struck us as a fantastic place to spend a couple of romantic days at the start, or end, of a honeymoon. Part of the British Empire until 1997, when...

Incredible Indonesia...

Wonderful Indonesia is an exotic land of beauty, mystery and ancient culture, comprising over 17,000 islands, and is the world’s fourth most populous country. It shares borders with Malaysia, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Australia over its vast archipelago, which has...

Amazing Alila Villas, U...

Alila Villas, Uluwatu, Bali…Turquoise’s Best Contemporary Pool Villa Cliff Hanger Stepping into the remote Alila Villas Uluwatu, on the very southern tip of Bali, is like entering a vision of a futuristic temple – contemporary, sleek, stunning in design and immediately...

Sunrise at Angkor Wat, ...

Cambodia is a place which is close to my heart and has a way of touching your soul like few other countries I have been lucky enough to have visited. Many people associate Cambodia with its dark and turbulent modern history and the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970’s....