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4 Days in Historic Malta: Just Enough to Lose Track of Time…

4 Days Across Historic Malta

“See how this clock has just one hand” points out Baroness de Piro, “that’s how you can tell it’s a traditional Maltese clock.” “Not until the 19th century did the Maltese create clocks with two hands. I think it’s something to do with our relaxed approach to time”, she remarks with a glint in her […]

Wine, Walks & Warmth: Weekend of Wonders in Switzerland’s Valais Region

Wine, Walks and Warmth A Weekend of Wonders in Switzerland's Valais Region

“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 […]

North Corfu: The Perfect Trip for Two

Corfu Perfect Cheap Trip for Two

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 […]

7 Days in the Falkland Islands… A Week I’ll Never Forget!

7 Days in the Falkland Islands

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 […]

Hipster, Heritage and Hygge: How a Trip to Tallinn Hit the Spot

Hipster, Heritage and Hygge: How a Trip to Tallinn Hit the Spot

“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 […]

My Super Surprise: The Sparkle of Sri Lanka!

My Sri Lanka Surprise

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. […]

Dreaming of an Autumn Escape? Don’t Overlook the Amazing Algarve!

Autumn Trip in the Amazing Algarve

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 […]

Staring into Eswatini… But How Deep Should We Go?

Staring into Swaziland

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 […]