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 […]
Category Archives: Travel Stories
A McTraveller’s Guide to McDonald’s Across The World
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 […]
From Nairobi to Bangkok: Classic Traveller’s Hubs
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 […]
In-Flight Etiquette – 10 Tips For A Pleasant Journey
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 Traveller Will Regularly Encounter Fascinating Freaks
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, […]
Do you have proof of onward travel?
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 […]
Passport Discrimination, Embassy Corruption and the Lucky Travellers
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 […]
My Blog Turns 3! Some statistics and observations of this last year
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 […]
The Asakusa Money
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 […]
JAPAN: One year later I miss you and I still love you
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 […]
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