Velvet Ashes is thinking about numbers this week.   From reverse culture shock, to renting, moving house, bringing up cross cultural ki...

1. Having to wait for the landlord to fix something. Like that time we had no water for a week. Each day he said the tradesman was comin...

3 THREE MONTHS A string of fairy lights ties my first pregnancy/newborn memories to a night market in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We de...

Even though I knew it was going to  happen, somehow it was really upsetting to see Soeun taking apart our bed yesterday. Watching the legs c...

Which of the stuff in my house will make the 20kg bag that I’ll take with me when I leave Cambodia for a few years? After being here 5 ...