This post contains affiliate links where I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links and will not cost you anything extra. I have recently read Michelle Obama's biography Becoming. She shares her childhood, student years and entering and leaving the White House. What really struck me was her hard …
Category: Thoughts
Discovering Seasickness On My Travels
Travel is great in that it exposes you to new experiences that you wouldn't normally have in your everyday life and takes you to all the far flung places of our earth. It is here outside of our comfort zones, that we discover something about ourselves. I normally don't take ferries in my day to …
Juste Un Mot: The palm oil conundrum
With trying to do my part for our environment and future, I have recently turned my attention to Orangutans. Orangutans are one of my favourite animals of the world and unforuntely, their chances of their survival in the wild are slowly diminishing due to habitat loss and the increase in land clearing to make way …
Juste Un Mot: Taking a break
By the time this blog posts gets published, I would have taken 3 days off work this year since Christmas last year. I had changed jobs when the pandemic hit so have still been trying to accumulate annual leave days although at Christmas- there will be forced shut down of the office. Enjoying one of …
Reflecting on my First Solo Trip- Finland
My first solo trip was a while ago now and it was filled with utter excitement. It was to Finland for some research at a local university. At this stage of my life, that side of the world had yet to bleep onto my radar. What made it even more exciting was that it would …
Mexican Food: Cactus (Nopales)
When I recently wrote about my day trip from Queretaro to Bernal, I got a lot of interest about cactus as food. So here is a post dedicated to nopal! There are over 600 varieties of cactus in Mexico and the prickly pear cactus is commonly known as nopal which is eaten. The Mexican flag …
Juste Un Mot: Reusing Old Clothing
Fashion allows for another form of self expression. I like having choices and free styling. I haven't been influenced too much on trends although get so annoyed when I want to buy something but it's not being sold anywhere because it's not trendy at the time. In my last Juste Un Mot post, I wrote …
Juste Un Mot: True Cost Of Fashion
I've had somewhat of a writers block in the past week. I have some thirty travel related blog posts in draft but no motivation to complete them at this time. I have other topics that I want to write about so I've started a new category in my blog titled "Juste Un Mot" or just …
The Tales Of Travel Souvenirs
Souvenirs are such a personal matter. Some travelers don't buy anything at all, others are drawn to build their collection of a certain item and others are just looking out for things that catch their eye or perhaps personalised items. Frida Kahlo magnet from the Frida Kahlo Museum. One of the Top 8 places to …
Winter Words
This year has been like watching a slow motion car crash. I wake up every morning with abated breath at what news I will be reading and what has happend overnight. I find comfort in my morning tea. At least I have that. The beginning of the year was filled with hope and aspirations like …
