Online blogs on sport, business, law, farming, photography, from the Westmorland Gazette

Blog: Not enough time to explore Thailand

5:01pm Friday 3rd May 2013

You may have heard the words 'over-developed', 'packed with tourists' and 'crowded beaches' used to describe modern Thailand. So had I. These phrases are enough to put any traveller or tourist off visiting the country and, if it was not for the fact it was nestled neatly into our journey, I would have missed Thailand out altogether. But this would have been a terrible mistake, because now I've experience the silk-coated country it has been promoted to one of my favourite places.

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Blog: A fairytale visit to Singapore

6:16pm Friday 5th April 2013

Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a kingdom where everything ran like clockwork, with no rubbish in the streets or plaguing the rivers, everybody walked around the spacious pavements smiling, the air was filled with the soft scent of flowers, toilets flushed themselves and waiters brought cold water every time someone entered from the blissful heat.

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Blog: Arrival in Sri Lanka

2:23pm Tuesday 12th March 2013

An eight hour ride on a tin bus pumping Sri Lankan's tropical pop music swept us away from the southern coast's dramatic sandy beaches and into the heart of the countryside.

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Our last days in India

4:30pm Monday 18th February 2013

'Some things in life are destined to be', I was told by a self-proclaimed monk, who prefers to call himself a wanderer rather than a traveller and who said he dreamt of the organic farm, where we’re staying, months before he arrived.

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Discovering India's culinary delights away from the tourist trail

5:10pm Tuesday 5th February 2013

Former Westmorland Gazette reporter Emma Lidiard is travelling the world. Here's the third installment of her blog . . .

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Wonderful people and terrifying insects in our second week on India

3:38pm Tuesday 5th February 2013

I'm going to die when I'm 89, have a household full of children and be careful with my money; these are the predictions of an old Indian fortune teller who we meet mediating in the shady ruins of an ancient temple. He had long finger nails, young eyes and a mobile phone in his shirt pocket. We have moved on now from the sandy yellow beaches of Goa to the rocky landscape of Hampi.

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Exciting experiences of our first days in India

10:49am Tuesday 5th February 2013

Former Westmorland Gazette reporter Emma Lidiard is spending a year travelling the world with her husband, Sam. They have started their adventure in India.

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