Eating Vegan in Bangkok Being vegan in Bangkok is both surprisingly easy and unsurprisingly delicious. There’s a reason that Thai food is beloved the world over, but until I moved to London in 2010, it wasn’t something I’d ever really tried before. When I was in university, my now-husband and...

Getting to Khao Sok The minibus bounced along uneven roads in the early morning sun, speeding by lush green hills and delicate palm trees. I'd arrived into Surat Thani on an overnight train at 6:30am and had booked a night's stay in Khao Sok Paradise Resort. From Surat Thani, I...

Arrival At 8:30am, I stepped into the hot, humid air of Bangkok to find my Grab driver in the Suvarnabhumi Airport carpark. After an overnight flight from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, I was exhausted. I fell asleep in the back of the car as we crawled through the morning traffic, waking as...

On a trip to Japan with my husband last year, one of our favourite discoveries was a sake bar in Tokyo: Sake Market in Shinjuku. It was one of our last nights in Japan, and we'd just finished an underwhelming dinner in a nearby vegetarian restaurant. Wanting to turn the...

It's no secret that the Central Asian cuisine is very meat-heavy. I knew before travelling to Uzbekistan that it’d be hard to find vegan food in Tashkent or elsewhere. I assumed I'd likely be eating a lot of salad-and-fries combos, and had a pocket in my backpack stuffed with nuts...