Europe
Portugal, it feels different
In the last year we’ve visited Corsica, Bavaria, various Canary Islands, mainland Spain, Chile and Crete. Yet this trip to Portugal is unlike any of them. […]
Year: 2017
Food & drink
A deliciously sinful German tradition, Kaffee und Kuchen
No matter how small the village was where we ended up, there was always somewhere offering kaffee und kuchen. […]
El Hierro
Hiking and Dining in the enchanted world of El Hierro
Maybe the mythical charm had been on its summer holidays during our last visit, but within a couple of hours of touching down, we’d succumbed to El Hierro’s friendly embrace once again. […]
Crete
12 Serene Scenes of the west of Crete
Walking across a surprisingly lush Cretan countryside where a blurred fusion of history and mythology accompanied our steps was a revelation… […]
Crete
10 local dishes to try on Crete
Crete was our seventh Greek Island and three weeks exploring its lush and lovely western side reinforced our yin and yang opinions. As well as reacquainting our tastebuds with old friends we introduced them to some new and distinctly local ones. […]
The Canary Islands
The holiday island with the greatest number of tourists per 100 residents
Spanish tourism news portal Hostaltur published a report about the numbers of tourists per 100 residents on 25 islands. The results were interesting and might surprise some people. […]
Bavaria
Why Germany is a perfect match for British travellers
During four visits to Germany in the last three years we’ve regularly repeated one phrase. “Brits would love this.” […]
Italian Lakes
Travel moments, bridging the language gap in Soriso in Italy
I’m not sure exactly how we got from checking into a hotel in an off the beaten track hill town in the hills above Lake Orta in Italy to standing in a shrine to the town’s past encouraging the mayor to mime a call on an antiquated telepho […]
La Palma
Seven Wonders of La Palma
In the space of twelve months we visited the Canary Island of La Palma four times. We explored towns and trails and went off the beaten track on an island where everywhere is basically off the beaten track in order to help design two slow travel holidays… […]
Food & drink
Stop ordering steak well done. Right now!
This isn’t one of those clickbait headlines which the likes of The Independent uses to reel in readers – ‘stop eating avocados. Right now’ – this is an impassioned plea from the heart, or in this case the tastebuds. […]
Chile
Looking for condors and prehistoric birds in Chile
It’s a world straight out of Jurassic Park and realisation dawns with the day that Chile is like nowhere we’ve ever been before. […]
Europe
Ten scenes of the historic hill town of Evora in Portugal
Somewhere along the line what should have been the sort of ingredients that pushed a place to the top of a ‘must visit’ list became the sort of ingredients which made us wary of a […]
Europe
The problem with walking routes in the Canary Islands
The first time we fell foul of the Canary Islands’ anarchic approach to marking walking routes was on La Gomera when a couple of signposts on one trail weren’t where they should have been. […]
Korcula
The good, bad and ugly of travel lists
Some writers despise travel lists, viewing them as lazy travel writing designed to pull in lots of readers with the minimum of effort. However, statistics show people like lists. […]
Bavaria
Why I’ll eat Burgers in Bergamo and Pizzas in Provence
Is there a law which says if we want to be considered discerning travellers we should only eat what is considered ‘local food’ whenever we visit a destination? […]