Ten Reasons You Should Totally Visit Hangzhou
To Chinese, the city of Hangzhou, a budget airline hub that’s under an hour from Shanghai by bullet train, encapsulates the cultured, artistic leisure of...
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Eight Reasons to Visit Java
The most many visitors to Indonesia see of Java is Jakarta airport. But, while Indonesia’s gridlocked capital is a tough city to love, and hectic...
Ten Things Travel Writers Do That Folk Who Are on Holiday Don’t Do
I’ve written before about how fundamentally unglamorous it is to be a freelance writer. There are also many ways in which writing about travel for...
Why I’ll Never Be a Professional Travel Blogger
There have been a flood of posts lately explaining why being a travel blogger is really, really hard. It isn’t, obviously. It’s not subsistence farming...
Different for Girls
There comes a time in every woman’s life when you realise that travelling just IS different for girls. For me, this little epiphany happened en...
Why Every Parent Who Dives Should Do a Rescue Course
It’s easy to over-hype any form of diver training, particularly the ones that PADI provides – CMAS covers several of the skills PADI teaches in...
Death Drop in the Blue Hole
With hindsight, it was not the best idea to take my 12-year-old son into Dahab’s Blue Hole, a dive site which claims the lives of...
When Travelling Kids Hit Their Teens
I’d heard that something happened to travelling kids when they hit their teens – that they became averse to longterm travel, unwilling to make new...
10 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Mobile Phones
Could YOU do without a mobile phone while travelling? Given 57% of women in America would (allegedly) rather use their smartphone than have sex, and...
Top 10 Things to Do in Beijing with Kids
Headed to Beijing? The Chinese capital can be most excellent fun with kids at almost any time of year — though do avoid the main...