AMSTERDAM IN A NEW LIGHT
Amsterdam is a whimsical beast; celebrating its 750th birthday during 2025, the Dutch capital is defined by its iconic gabled houses, classical art, labyrinth of canals and tooting bicycles, as…
SRI LANKA FOR ALL SEASONS
It may not be glamorous to mention leach socks, but I'm glad they were available for the just-past-rainy-season-hiking-through-the-Pekoe-Trail experience that I undertook on my latest visit to Sri Lanka. I…
SLEEPY SONOMA – WITH A HIPPY HEART
As an add-on from Palm Springs, I caught a short flight over to the charismatic coastal region of Sonoma. Famous for it's mammoth redwood trees, there are plenty of wholesome…
HOW TO HAVE FUN IN TURKEY – PT 533!
I have been lucky enough to have visited Turkey a handful of times - and each one has been a very different experience - united by the sunny weather and…
ITALY’S NEWEST THEMED HOTEL
And you'll never guess where it is! Verona and street art might not be the most obvious of bedfellows as most of the city focusses on the romance of Romeo…
GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS IN ESTONIA
My long lost relatives hail from Tallinn, but I wasn't there for a family reunion, I was there to discover the culture and arts, oh, with a few saunas, ice…
IZZA hotel
ART IN THE MEDINA AT IZZA
Marrakech is always a good idea! Every time I visit, I fall in love a little bit more....so when I was invited to Africa Art Week AND stay at the…
SRI LANKAN ADVENTURES
I ACHIEVED A LIFE LONG DREAM OF VISITING THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND OF SRI LANKA And wrote two travel features on my journey; had a been able to stay longer, I'm…
LOOK BEYOND LISBON
AND YOU'LL DISCOVER CASCAIS IS FIT FOR A KING I am a big fan of Portugal. Huge in fact! But in all my years of adventuring, I had never made…