“Which language is easiest for you,” asks the lady behind the reception desk, “German, French, Italian or English?” English I reply sheeplshly, forever embarrassed by the poor school French and Spanish I can just about deploy to conjure up a basic sentence. “Great”, she says thrusting a key the size of my shoulder bag into […]
Tag Archives: Stories
02
Sep
Sep
It turns out there’s a lot that rhymes with Corfu. From the “sea that’s blue” to the “I’m here with you”, the list for trivial lyrics is almost as irrevocable as it is infinite when it comes to this Greek island. Or so it felt, as we drove around Corfu in our rental car discovering […]
18
Jan
Jan
It’s not every day you get the opportunity to go to the Falkland Islands that’s for sure! And that’s one of the reasons this opportunity was, quite frankly, the stuff my travel dreams are made of! Needless to say therefore, when I was asked if I’d like to embark on this trip, I absolutely jumped […]
05
Dec
Dec
“How can I best describe Tallinn?” I asked my travel colleague. “Well it’s one of the best preserved Medieval cities in Europe” he replied. “Yes I know,” I said, “but I think I might need something slightly sexier than that.” “I honestly don’t know how it gets sexier than that”, was his incredulous response! And […]
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Oct
Oct
Controversially south Asia was not a region I’d fallen in love with travel-wise. With its great beaches, epic cultural attractions and rich culinary traditions, I’d enjoyed my travels across Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Laos and beyond, but this wasn’t a region that had really grabbed my heart like South America or southern Africa. […]
23
Oct
Oct
Sat in the late afternoon sun, below ancient olive trees, sipping a delicious glass of white produced in the very vineyards surrounding me, I had to punch myself that I really was in the Algarve. After all, my impression of Portugal’s southern region had been something a little different form this. One of the UK’s […]
12
May
May
Believe it or not, as a travel blogger one of the most common questions I get asked is which is my favourite country. While of course, it’s impossible for me to choose just 1 destination, but I do have a top list of countries that I’ve fallen in love with. And it may come as […]
31
Dec
Dec
Well 2020, what a year you’ve been! In one way, it’s going to be very easy to summarise these 12 months because, let’s be honest, not much has happened! With lockdown and other restrictions on our movements having been present across most of Europe for most of this year, I think it’s fair to […]
27
May
May
Countries that have different cultural values to our own present the traveller with an amazing opportunity to learn and witness something else, something “other”, but this can also come with its own set of moral dilemmas to navigate. And while, to some people, this may sound either boring, complicated, or both; for me, it’s exactly […]
07
Feb
Feb
I fell in love with Lebanon almost from the moment I arrived in the country. Maybe it was because I’d been travelling in countries like Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt and Jordan by myself, directly before I got to Lebanon, that this Mediterranean nation with its semi-western influences suddenly felt more relaxed and easy to me. […]