Europe

Gatwick, My Idea of Travel Hell

If I thought I was over the worst of my Gatwick experience I was sadly mistaken…by this time there was near anarchy in the queue with everyone, including me, clearly able to see that the EasyJet check-in system SUCKS. […]

Podstine Hotel, Hvar, Croatia
Croatia

Review of Hotel Podstine, Hvar, Croatia

From the moment you arrive in this pine, cypress and palm studded oasis, you are made to feel welcome in Paradise. This is elegant simplicity and shoulder-loosening tranquillity at its best in idyllic surroundings, an easy amble from the historic centre of Hvar Town. […]

Daubensee, Valaise, Switzerland
Hiking

Walking with Ghosts in Switzerland’s Valais

I may have enjoyed the 21st century luxury of being whisked here by cable car rather than on foot along the potentially treacherous path of the Gemmi Pass as my celebrated predecessors had done, but the magnitude of what lay before me was the same one that had spread before their eyes 150 years ago. […]

St Donatus Church, Zadar, Croatia
Croatia

City Guide to Zadar in Croatia

Guardian to around 300 islands nestling off its coastline; located in easy reach of six national parks, and site of a beautiful, old walled city whose charms rival that of its sibling city of Dubrovnik but without the hordes of day trippers, Zadar is one of Croatia’s best kept secrets. […]

Canary bird in an orchid tree
Tenerife

The Pros and Cons of Life in the Sun

After months of deliberation and weighing up the pros and cons, we finally opted to move to a fixed location, or in trendy travel writer speak, to be destination specific, and to the most unlikely destination we could possibly have chosen. […]

Le Picnic in Brittany
Europe

Exploring Brittany With Le Picnic

Brittany’s Rance estuary affords endless opportunities for al fresco dining as around every bend in the road it seems, another stretch of water lends itself to a view worthy of idling an afternoon away with a glass of Bordeaux and a piece of brie. […]

Rural Hotel Ibo Alfaro
Europe

Review of Rural Hotel Ibo Alfaro, La Gomera

Rural Hotel Ibo Alfaro is like the Dowager Countess of Hermigua; a genteel icon of a simpler, grander age who welcomes hikers into her ample and bejewelled bosom to soothe them with her surroundings, replenish them with her breakfasts and send them out into the world fully informed… […]