Rebecca and the World

Happy new year! I can’t believe how quickly this year has flown by, and that we’re now on the doorstep of yet another year… and more adventures and surprises!   I feel like I am perpetually writing these words: sorry, but I’m behind on the blog. Working crazy hours is not helping. There have been [...]

Before I went to Cambodia, I thought there was just Angkor Wat. Naively, I didn’t realise there was a whole city of amazing ruins and that Angkor Wat was just one part – granted, a very important part – of the huge complex that is Angkor Thom. It’s hard to walk around Angkor Thom without being [...]

Our trip to Thailand and Cambodia back in May this year seems like a lifetime ago! We have been so busy here in our new home of Papua New Guinea and I have been neglecting my blog terribly I’m going to make more of an effort to post more often and to start, here are [...]

Flicking through the newspapers in PNG is always interesting and you’re bound to stumble on something shocking or hilarious. My favourite one from a few weeks ago was this one. Where else but PNG would you get a free bush knife (essentially a machete) with your paint?  

I’ve been living in Papua New Guinea for seven weeks now, and many in the blogging world have asked me: “Where exactly is Papua New Guinea?” Good question. This is a country that is certainly off the travel radar, and for my friends in the US or Europe, it’s not likely that PNG would make [...]

Ask people what their favourite thing about Thailand is and without a doubt most will say it’s the food. I’m no different. When I’m in Thailand, there’s rarely a day when I would choose Western food over Thai.   And why would I? The barrage of flavours and colours is enough to tickle my taste [...]

  Pull a camera out of your bag in Papua New Guinea and it won’t be long before you’re surrounded by a huge crowd of people hoping to get their picture snapped. It was no different with these kids who were heading home from school. We were visiting the village to see a bridge that [...]

  Apologies for the infrequent posts – I’ve been in the thick of moving to Papua New Guinea. I’ve now been here for almost two weeks and have been absolutely flat out with work, trying to get stuff done, meeting the people I need to meet. Alas, I have not seen as much of Port [...]

  The first sighting of the Temples of Angkor was every bit as magical and awe-inspiring as I’d imagined. I’d always thought that the pictures I’d seen in books showed this astonishing construction pretty well, but nothing prepared me for the small shivers I got when I first laid eyes on it in person. Getting [...]

Our first day in Cambodia. Like seemingly thousands of others, we used the bonus of our three-day pass to the Angkor Temples to watch the sunset before our access officially began. As we shuffled for space with everyone else, a group of young monks came out of nowhere and sat near us. After asking if [...]