Paris in pictures Our first stop on our 18 month backpacking trip was the wonderful city of Paris. As there are millions of words written on this ancient city we have decided to publish a photo blog with some famous quotes on Paris instead. Enjoy! When good Americans die, they go to Paris -Oscar Wilde A [...]

A guide to Ko Lanta 5 reasons why Ko Lanta is our favourite island in Thailand Ko Lanta is an island off the Andaman coast of southern Thailand. It is actually a series of islands but most travellers and tourists go to Ko Lanta Yai which roughly means Big Lanta Island.  It’s about 1 hour [...]

Travelling around the world A series of images of the different modes of transport we have used to travel around the world. It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.  ~Mexican Proverb Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains [...]

globalhelpswap at Lanta Animal Welfare Here are our video blogs from our day spent at Lanta Animal Welfare on the wonderful Thai island of Koh Lanta. As the dogs liked to show how happy they were (i.e. bark!) some of the sound fades out so here are some points we covered. Lanta Animal Welfare is [...]

May newsletter by globalhelpswap Hello from globalhelpswap! Another month gone with a blink of the eye. Half of 2013 is over already. I hope that it’s been a good year for you so far. May was a very progressive month for us. We had some more amazing organisations sign up with us and our volunteer [...]

Inle Lake Inle Lake was the area we were most excited about visiting in Burma and it did not disappoint. From the moment we entered our lovely guesthouse we knew we were going to love it. The amazing welcome we received put most 5 star hotels to shame. The staff whisked our bags off to our bungalow [...]

Signs of Life (part 2) As promised more images of amusing, upsetting and baffling signs from our travels. Bangkok, Thailand Bangkok, Thailand Ko Lanta, Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand Phnom Penh, Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia The Killing Fields, Cambodia Shianoukville, Cambodia Don Det, Laos Pakse, Laos Vientiane, Laos Luang Prabang, Laos Sagada, The Philippines Palawan, The Philippines On [...]

Bagan Our trip to Bagan was full of excitement, trepidation and curiosity. Excitement because Bagan had been on our hit list for a long time. Trepidation because we were taking the overnight train from Yangon and curiosity because we had read so many blogs moaning about Bagan being over run with tourists so we wanted to see [...]

Signs of Life A series of images we have found on our travels. Some are amusing, some are upsetting and some are just baffling! Paris, France Berlin, Germany St Petersburg, Russia Yekaterinburg, Russia Ulanbator, Mongolia Beijing, China Qingdao, China On a boat between China & South Korea On a boat between China & South Korea [...]

Weekend in London   We have just had a friend visit us from New York. It is the first time Zach has ever left America so we wanted to make sure his 3 days in London were action packed. That they were! When we have visitors and play the tourist in our own cities we [...]