NEWS JUST IN: We have a new bread supplier! In France, this is quite a big event - one which has compelled me to write a blog post on the matter. If there's one food I consumed very little of in Asia, it was bread. They don't really do bread very well there - it's laden with sugar and is often quite greasy. And don't even think about getting your hands on a brown loaf (you'll just get the same bread as if you hadn't asked). I don't think we 'do' bread much ...

On paper, it makes sense, but in practice, it's one of the most difficult yogic principles to apply, in my opinion: Aparigraha, or as it's commonly interpreted, non-attachment. In the section on the Yamas - one of the eight 'limbs' of yoga, as outlined in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - we're advised to let go (of people, possessions, outcomes...) in order to avoid the suffering that comes with the potential for loss, and loss itself. If we don't cling on to the thing...

Ask me why a person should travel and I'll tell you a million reasons (better still, read my friend Kori's latest blog and you'll get a very eloquent, concise explanation). So why not travel? It's a question I threw back at a girl I met in Paris, after our flight back to France from Bangkok. She was from Birmingham and returning from a holiday in Istanbul, and she wanted to know why we'd been travelling for 10 whole weeks. I was left trying to answer my own quest...

A year ago I set off on a journey - it was to be my year out, my round-the-world trip, "Katy's tour du Monde", as my friend and teacher, Laurie, called it (inspired the Grand Depart for the 2014 Tour de France taking place in Yorkshire at the time). Although I felt a strange and forceful compulsion to leave everything I knew behind and embark on this great adventure, I didn't really know what to expect from it. But I always hoped I would learn lots of things - ab...

What do you get when you cross a long term traveller with a person on a short holiday? Can their needs ever be married in a harmonious fashion? Well I can tell you, because I recently spent a couple of weeks with a friend, who was in much need of a break and had always said she might be up for linking up somewhere on my route. We were texting one day in June and I asked her to join us in Thailand. Like magic, four weeks later she arrived!Leaving Jean in Pai, I ma...