“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 a slightly sexier than that.” “I honestly don’t know how it gets sexier than that”, was his incredulous response! […]
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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. […]
04
Jun
Jun
Yes that’s right, in case you somehow hadn’t heard me screaming it from the rooftops yet… I love Ethiopia! For years of being somebody that found it impossible to name their favourite country when asked, I can now give a very easy and definitive answer and I love it! I love it that this is […]
25
Dec
Dec
Are you a bucket list traveller or do you balk at the very phrase? So often the drive to tick things off our list, or not, can define our travel styles… and us as travellers. Put very crudely, there are those that travel primarily to check world sights and countries off their lists and […]
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Sep
Sep
10 months it was in the end. 10 months to get from Brisbane to Perth … over the top of Australia. That’s a grand total of 8000km, in case you were wondering, which is roughly the same distance as flying from Sydney to London. And let me tell you, that’s a lot of driving! […]