So we’ve spent the last ten days in Pai, which is essentially a hippy haven; full of shops selling tie-dyed clothes, chilled out cafes with hammocks in abundance, and the occasional bar. There’s live music pretty much every night, usually in the form of open mic nights and jam sessions, so in that way it’s […]
Month: January 2017
Cultural Sensitivity and Gender Equality: How do they match up in Ghana?
After three months researching food sovereignty and food systems in Vea, a village in Northern Ghana, I discovered that global projects such as food sovereignty issuing generalised values or principles can be problematic, especially to specific sociopolitical contexts such as a rural African village, with its own cultural ideals and ‘rules’. In this case, the values […]
Cats and Coffee: One Week in Chiang Mai
I’ll be the first to admit that my previous experience of SE Asia is limited – before this trip I had spent six weeks in India, and only the North-West corner, at that! However, that being said, I don’t think I’m alone when I say that Chiang Mai is an incredibly easy city to be […]
Happy List from our first week in Chiang Mai
Here is a list of things that have made me happy so far in our first week in Thailand: The temperature – though it’s been a little overcast some days, it hasn’t really dropped below 21° C, which of course makes me very happy! The café culture: great coffee, cheap eats, and lovely lazy […]