2022 Year in Review
As we launch into '23, it’s time for a quick reflection on '22, which was an about/face on '21. A busy year of renovating + social catch-ups
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Short essays on Portugal, our travels & tea,
random musings and writings
and galleries of our photography
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An ever-growing series about the Teas of the World
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Travel essays and our musings on country and place
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Our experiences and adventures as we make our new home in Portugal
And from Vientiene, galleries of his photography.
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- Dec 31, 2021
- 11 min
2021 Year in Review
What happened and didn't happen in our 2021 as we continued settling in and exploring Portugal. Golegã, renovations in the Alentejo + more
- Dec 9, 2021
- 12 min
In Our Face: How Travelling for Tea turned our teashop climate positive
In the last month or so, we finally finished the research, thinking and calculations to take our teashop MatchaAlternatives.com, carbon...
- Aug 15, 2021
- 3 min
Gallery 30: Christmas in Manila, Philippines 2019
At the end of 2019 we had just spent two months in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in a serviced apartment to focus focus focus on launching our tea...
- Jun 29, 2021
- 5 min
The Sounds of the Alentejo
What is the Alentejo truly like? Take an immersive sound journey to this beautiful rural region covering a third of Portugal
- Dec 31, 2020
- 11 min
2020 Year in Review
2020 was a year to end all years. Here's what our 2020 was like, starting out in the Philippines, Brunei & Malaysia, then on to Portugal
- Nov 5, 2020
- 13 min
Moving to Portugal Update 3: Why we chose the Alentejo
An update on us, and why we chose Portugal as our new home. And we have a home now!
- Jul 31, 2020
- 8 min
Generous Taiwan
Our visit to Taiwan in July
2018 was characterised by tea, dumplings and over-the-top kindness, plus a dose of intense history.
- Apr 28, 2020
- 9 min
Back to Basics in Busan (& Gallery 25)
In Busan, the second city of South Korea and our home for a few weeks in July 2018, we were deluged with ‘foreign’. And it was brilliant.
- Mar 18, 2020
- 12 min
Covid-19, Portugal & Present Digital Nomad Life (March 2020)
What life is like for us, other digital nomads and people around with world navigating the coronavirus, travel bans and lockdowns.
- Feb 23, 2020
- 2 min
Gallery 24 Prague, Czechia 2019
We visited Czechia in May 2019 for a culture-filled week with my artist sister. This album captures that week, with plenty of art and sweets
- Nov 18, 2019
- 7 min
Penang Portraits & Gallery 21: "Of Tea, Cooks & Mermaids"
This piece is about our time in Penang in April & May 2018, and the people we met. This kindness and welcoming spirit was not an outlier...
- Aug 30, 2019
- 10 min
Sofia, Bulgaria: What’s it Like Thirty Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain?
What evidence of 45 years of Soviet socialism could we see? What was Bulgaria like under the Communist Party? And the economics?
- Jun 26, 2019
- 3 min
The Sad Woman in St Pancras
1-2 minute read. Note: We are currently on a whirlwind visit to the UK, next stop Bulgaria. The below piece is a new style I'm...
- Jan 14, 2019
- 12 min
2018 Year in Review
12-15 minute read. Note: We are currently in southern France, house-sitting through April this year. // Welcome to 2019! The start of a...
- Oct 21, 2018
- 7 min
Walking Lucy in Ha Tinh, Vietnam
5 minute read. Note: We are currently in Spain, although this post is about Vietnam. // Heat is the defining feature of Vietnam in June....
- Jul 21, 2018
- 6 min
Entering the Pool in Penang
4 minute read. Note: We are currently in Indonesia, even though this post is about the pool in Penang. // One. The white-blue sky...
- Jun 10, 2018
- 7 min
Vestiges of Britain in Penang
6 minute read. Note: We are currently in Vietnam, even though this post is about the end of Penang. // I am here on the balcony at the...
- Mar 12, 2018
- 6 min
The Things We Packed
We are at the t-minus nine days point now and it is time to concentrate on packing. Considering we’re wandering digital nomads we have...
- Dec 31, 2017
- 5 min
2017 Accomplishments
In 2017, we visited the UK, the US, Denmark, Norway, Thailand, Japan, India and Hong Kong. Boy did we accomplish a lot. Such as... In...
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