Chiang Mai’s old city, surrounded by an exotic moat and remnants of ancient city walls, sounds like it would be small and easy to navigate. It’s not. Chiang Mai’s.
14 years ago
My hands cover Miss M’s tiny ones, which are holding onto her dad’s sides. She doesn’t have the arm span to reach around him. My legs and arms hold.
14 years ago
A dear friend jets off to Vietnam next week with her toddler son, slightly apprehensive about her first overseas trip as a single mother. The unstoppable Ms J is.
14 years ago
“Pretty gur,” says the tiny woman who’s emerged from the kitchen of the cafe. She is pinching Miss M’s cheeks and grinning. “Pretty gur, ah!” Miss M grins back,.
14 years ago
Eating in Langkawi wasn’t as exciting as we expected. Miss M was more disinterested in eating than usual and every time we got a morsel of food into her.
14 years ago
We swanned off to Penang without much planning. It was perhaps a bit of Asian expat arrogance. Twenty-month-old Miss M is an old Vietnam and Singapore hand and we,.
14 years ago
McLarenvale had me at the tourist information centre carpark. The sight of Autumn leaves and the smell of the rosemary bushes being raked into order make me fall in.
14 years ago
Once they spot the baby there’s no escape. They work themselves up from gasps and oohs and titters, gradually building the courage to creep forward. Soon they are crowding.
14 years ago