The Best & Worst Of My Travels, 2015
Travelling is all about discovery – and I just love to find new things. The good news is that they’re usually positive experiences: a little restaurant on the beach in […]
Travelling is all about discovery – and I just love to find new things. The good news is that they’re usually positive experiences: a little restaurant on the beach in […]
If you think you can avoid McDonald’s when you travel then you better be going to North Korea or Cuba. McDonald’s “restaurants” look the same everywhere: cheery decor; bored staff attending […]
Long before air conditioning, ATMs, email and mobile phones travelling was a tricky, lonely, expensive business – it still can be. Indeed, we travellers tire of out-of-touch homebodies telling us […]
Long journeys are never easy to endure but following a few basic guidelines makes it more comfortable for you, your fellow traveller and the airline staff. Most of these tips […]
The characters that one meets in bars around the world are truly fascinating. Indeed, I have met many friends in this manner. This most recent international “freakspotting” was in Taipei, […]
It’s the question that most regular travellers despise more than “would you please step this way for an intimate body search?” The most unneccessary, the most irritating and the most […]
Ahmed, a 27-year-old Syrian passport holder living in the UAE was denied a visa to the UK to attend uncle’s wedding 3 years ago. He had a good job in […]
Here we grow again! Another year and another big thank you to you for carefully researching your next overseas adventures with me. Even if you are killing time at work […]
There were two of us who moved into this squalid little hole in Asakusa, a studio apartment. It was mid-summer many, many years ago. We needed somewhere for our last […]
It’s one year since you and your tectonic plates changed my life forever Even though I have left you, you haven’t left me. The horror will never leave either of […]