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Scuba Thailand

Phuket and the Big Blue

Our 3-week holiday from work was approaching, and we’d originally planned to stay in Malaysia, perhaps to visit Borneo. In the end, however, we headed to Thailand. This decision was largely based on the desire to scuba dive, and finding a good first place for Miki to experience it. So it was that we landed …

Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur – settling in

During the week, we began to find a rhythm with our new routine. We were both still working, so to coincide with UK hours, we started our workday at 4 pm. This meant that, provided we didn’t get up too late, we would have a day to explore before we began work. On Monday, after …

Malaysia

Landing (back) in Southeast Asia

After nearly 24 hours of travelling, we had landed in Kuala Lumpur, and navigated our way from the airport to the train to the centre of the city. With bags too heavy, and a burst of heat hitting us as we stepped from the train, we set off in what, of course, turned out to …

Malaysia Musings

10-year Nomad-versary

This September marks ten years since I donned my backpack and first jumped on a plane heading out of Europe, beginning with five months of exploring Southeast Asia. The first five years were spent as a backpacker, stopping now and then for a few months to work and save some money, before spending the next …

Sri Lanka

The city of Kandy and the start of COVID-19

Having left our bikes in Colombo, we caught a bus into the centre of the island to Kandy, wanting to experience something other than the beach life Sri Lanka had to offer.  Waking up on our first morning we were greeted by the sun raising his head from behind tree covered mountains; light was flooding …

Cycling Sri Lanka

The final ride (…in Sri Lanka)

Our time in Sri Lanka was drawing to a close and though we had been enjoying our lazy lifestyle by the beach, we wanted to make sure we saw a little more of the country before leaving. After some contemplation we decided to make our way to Kandy, a mountainous city situated in central Sri …

Sri Lanka

Life in Weligama

We settled on a town called Weligama as a place to call home through January 2020.  We’d been looking for somewhere to rent that included a kitchen so we could cook healthy vegan meals (as there was limited choice available when eating out) but this turned out to be more difficult and expensive than we’d …

Cycling Sri Lanka

Riding South for Surf and Sunshine

We touched down in Sri Lanka’s capital city, Colombo, in the early hours of Saturday morning. After locating our bike boxes we wheeled them outside on a trolley and put the bicycles back together under an airport street light, the sky above still dark. It must have been one of the more unusual scenes that …