As one of the highlights of Bhutan,  "Tiger's Nest" continues to attract visitors, including myself.  After hiking most of the morning to get to it, I glimpsed…

“When I little girl, I so scared," said Ann, a Laotian I had met earlier that day and invited me in for tea. "We living in village close to Sepon, near eastern…

Whenever I see this photo of my mum and me, I always smile.  We were both laughing about something, perhaps over a funny story.  I have such few photos of just…

I came across this old photo and a flood of memories came back:  I was  arm-wrestling with a Tibetan monk at a Buddhist monastery just outside of Lhasa.  What…

As people flock to temples in Asia, some new, some old where the beautiful sculptures are still relatively intact, I like to hang around the ruins that look…

One of the highlights of my time in Chiang Mai was taking a cooking class.  In a span of three hours, we made fish cakes, two curries, Pad Thai, onion rice,…

"Hello! Can I practice my English with you?" she asked.  I heard this high-pitched voice from across the street and when I turned around, all I saw was a small…

Poor guy - he had it rough from the start: his father was killed when he was eight, his mom died of tuberculosis several years later, and he himself lived only…

Despite all the pasta-eating and espresso-drinking last week, my favorite eating spot in Rome was La Prosciutteria.  Yes, you heard it correctly:  an…

I love the Europeans' take on a "coffee break". While traveling on business in Rome and Paris recently, I've discovered the little 'pauses" of a work day, a…