How (Not) To Go Skiing On A Budget
Someone once compared sailing to standing fully clothed under a cold shower burning ten pound notes. Which would, I guess, make skiing standing in a...
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Some Ill-Informed Observations On Bulgaria
The last time I went to Central Europe, it was Eastern Europe, and it was Communist. The last two countries I visited – Czechoslovakia and...
Travel Planning 2012 — Or, Getting My Sh*t Together, Sort Of
I had high hopes for our sojourn in Blighty. By approximately, umm, now, Z and I would have completed a whirlwind tour of the UK,...
A Beach. England. January. Are We Mad?
There is something extremely English about a trip to the beach in winter. Our beaches, like our weather, our teeth and vast swathes of our...
The Friday Photo: Yi Lady Smoking
We met this lady from the Yi tribal minority catching the cable car up to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, outside Lijiang, China, to tend to...
5 Things To Do With Kids In London
I wasn’t born in London. But I lived in London from when I was five until I was seventeen, and then again from 21 to...
A Day At The Races
The late, lamented Soho lush and gambler, Jeffrey Bernard, tells the story of a man named Antonio, a barman in one of his locals: “His...
The Friday Photo: Black Swan, Gold Carp
At the panda sanctuary in Chengdu, the city where we spent Halloween, the lake is full of koi carp. Scatter food on the surface of...
Yes, You Really Do Need A Week in Beijing
It is China travel lore that “you need a week in Beijing”. Now, given we travel at a pace so slow it’s verging on glacial,...
9 Life Lessons Children Learn From Travel
After almost two years on the road, I have to say that if I’d known how much children learn from travel, I’d have started travelling...