Barcelona – travel with kids

I've always tried to be authentic in writing about travel with babies and travel with kids.

How to Act like a Traveller at Home

True travel addicts share how they keep the travel vibe alive on home turf.

Tale of a Group Travel Virgin

I wrote a travel story recently about my first experience of group travel. It saw me looking back to a trip that I took ten years ago. Writing it was quite an interesting journey in itself – funny how when you look back patterns reveal themselves. That's one of the reasons I love writing. The…

Any Day Adventure

A day can take you a lot of places, even when you don't really go anywhere at all. 

Domestic Bliss

If you ever find yourself getting tiered of that daily grind of chores – washing the dishes, taking out the trash, doing the laundry, cooking meals ect. I have a great cure. Just pack up your entire house, put most things into storage and put the things you cannot live without into suitcases. Fly around…

On loving Paul Simon’s Graceland

...following the river down the highway through the cradle of the civil war...

Take a Walk

The many layers of a city take a while to explore, and for me one of the best ways to unravel the ins and outs of a city is on foot. Walking the streets of a new city at different times of the day, seeing the light change, seeing the habbits of the people and…

Flying Solo – a Flamingo journey

Birds flying over Ayvalik at Sunset, Turkey 2011   Sometimes the universe just does all the work for you. I wanted  to find a quaint seaside town to take some time out in after all my touring in Turkey. It needed to be an easy distance from Ephesus and a good jumping off point to…

How to be a good Bedouin houseguest

Staying as a Bedouin houseguest in Wadi Rum, Jordan let me glimpse everyday life in the village from a perspective perhaps not seen by many travellers. As nomads the Bedouin traditionally lived in tents in the desert. They made a living raising goats and camels. Today when you travel into the desert in the south…