10 Reasons To Visit Wales!

I love Wales, and I love being Welsh! It is also true that the vast majority of visitors to the UK don’t visit Wales. I also know that many UK citizens also don’t visit Wales, at least not all that often. I am impressed and proud to see Wales feature more in destination lists, including…

Xingcheng – An Ancient City in China

Note: This was originally posted on my previous site Becky in China. Xingcheng is one my favourite places visited in China! It was by accident that I learnt about the little town of Xingcheng. I was browsing Googlemaps, looking for cities I could potentially go and visit during the Spring Festival in February, when I…

World Toilet Day 2018

Today (Monday, November 19th 2018) is World Toilet Day. Yes, such a thing exists! But why?Some facts (from http://www.worldtoiletday.info/wtd2018/ ): • 4.5 billion people don’t have access to a safe toilet – that’s 60% of the global population. • 62.5% of the world don’t have access to safe sanitation. • 1.8 billion people use water…

Book Review: Educated by Tara Westover

Note: This review was originally posted on my previous site, Becky in China. It is one of the best books I've read this year and would be a shame to miss it out! I’ve been seeing this book a lot on Goodreads and iBooks, so when I noticed it was on special offer, I couldn’t…

Vietnam: 9 Foods to try!

Note: This was originally posted on my previous site, Becky In China. I like the post, and hope you will to, so I decided to repost on this new site 🙂 Honestly, if I could do a food tour of the world, I would. Who doesn’t like trying the foods of where they travel to?…

Book Review: The Secret Life of Bees

Title: The Secret Life of Bees Author: Sue Monk Kidd Material source: iBooks My rating – 5 / 5 🌟 About the book:Lily Owens has just turned fourteen. She lives an isolated life on a peach farm with her unloving father and her substitute mother Rosaleen, and has grown up with the terrible knowledge that…