(Thank you Slava for this amazing shot). This blog started out as an expression of gratitude to the Shapers who have touched my life in...

If there's one thing that we miserably failed at during our holiday, it's the whole 'let's wake up early and beat the crowds' ...

Tulum takes 'hipster' to another level. It might be too hot to sport beards here, but this place would grind Shoreditch to the dust in...

The Yucatan Peninsula is peppered with little dots of paradise, the cenotes. Jumping into their cool waters after a hot day of exploring...

The Yucatan Peninsula is host to the world's second largest coral reef - the Mesoamerican barrier reef aka the Great Mayan Reef,...

After Chichen Itza, we had planned to continue our drive eastwards, spending a night in Valladolid. We had something of a last-minute...

The wonder of architecture perfected and sanctified by ancient civilisations will never cease to captivate me. After Uxmal and Mayapan,...

This isn't entirely chronological, but I have to say that I was taken by the charm of the small cities in the Yucatan - especially Merida...

And the adventures begin! We all need a little magic in our lives, and mine, frankly, had been made sparkly by Harry Potter as a child....

^Posing with the Shapers Note: all pictures in this post are sourced from the World Economic Forum's Flickr account. In this day and age...

I've always been vocal about one thing: the life of a diplomat isn't what it seems. Far from being glitzy travels, fat paycheck and...

One of Beijing's best kept secrets: the 798 Art Zone.

I remember seeing an ad once which made me look twice: it was a fitness brand, depicting this woman jumping into a pool with the caption...

Chilled rosé wine, a rose garden, blue skies in the Cote d' Azur: what more could a girl want? After our first lazy couple of days in...

Nice is both glamour and simplicity. Its shops and boulangeries and wine caves have different opening hours, whilst the iconic Negresco...