Spain
Writing about the real Tenerife
It’s sixteen years since we set up our first website to share what we were discovering about the real Tenerife. The website was an afterthought, designed to accompany a driving guide to some of our […]
Articles by Jack
Great Britain
A Week’s Walking on Jersey
What a cracker of an intro to walking on Jersey – coastal paths, huge views, green lanes (roads where walkers, cyclists, and horse riders take precedence over cars), sweeping bays with golden sand beaches, potato fields, seafood shacks on the beach. […]
Food and drink
Travel writing & restaurant reviews
Do travel writers get free meals in restaurants? The short answer to that is yes, of course they do otherwise nobody but the very well-off could ever afford to be travel writers. […]
Hiking
Tips and advice for hikers of all levels
When it comes to tips and advice for hikers, whether anyone is new to walking in the countryside or has notched up thousands of kilometres on the trail, there is always something new to learn. […]
Food and drink
A review of restaurants in St Aubin on Jersey
As well as being a pretty town with an attractive character, it boasts more restaurants than you might expect from a town of its size, no doubt due to its popularity with visitors. The question is, how good are restaurants in St Aubin? […]
Alentejo
Eight of the most beautiful towns in Portugal
Marvão comes in at first position as it dominated our view for four months. Perched on a rock overlooking the golden Alentejo plains, this walled, Moorish town near the border with Spain is as stunning up close as it is from a distance. […]
Picture This
The Wish You Were Here Travel Photographs
Whenever we head to any destination, I make a tick list of images I want. Sometimes I have a good idea of what the ‘I want to stand on that spot image’ is, at others it presents itself… […]
Food and drink
10 ways to tell if you are a foodie
There are many various views on what constitutes being a foodie, but what most people in the food business agree about is what doesn’t.
It doesn’t mean someone who likes food and who likes to eat a lot. […]
Travel Talk
The Secret Lives of Hotel Guests
It’s 9 o´clock, we’re in a small rural hotel miles from anywhere, we know the hotel is almost full as all the tables in the dining room were taken, but now the place is empty: a ghost hotel. There’s no village nearby, so where have all the other guests gone? […]
Food and drink
Comparing Michelin recommended restaurants in Padstow
In Padstow, after eating in Paul Ainsworth at Number 6 and Rick Stein’s St Petroc’s Bistro on two consecutive days, we had the opportunity to compare and contrast… […]
Food and drink
Why eat out in a restaurant?
There can be inverse snobbery at play when it comes to Michelin star cuisine. It’s often described and dismissed as fancy or pretentious by people who prefer their food to be conventional. […]
Great Britain
Walking the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
The towpath becomes less manicured where nature has snatched back land lost to relatively small-scale industrialisation. Ferns crowd the chocolate-coloured water; there are more ducks and moorhen than boats; many of the old bridges spanning the canal are overgrown to the point of being impossible to cross; and the leafy forest canopy closes in above… […]
Food and drink
A different take on that Bros review
Last week, The Everywhereist’s review ridiculing the restaurant (not the 80s boy band) Bros in Lecce went viral on social media and was subsequently shared by numerous mainstream news publications. Instead of joining the vocal […]
Hiking
10 reasons why snowy destinations are for non-skiers
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve written quite a bit about snow breaks for non-skiers. By now I should be weary of trying to describe wintry scenes using numerous different words, wishing I was […]
Food and drink
There are hotel bars and there are hotel bars
Writing about hotel bars this week, I made a reference to convivial inns. The person responsible for editing the piece questioned the use of the word inn as opposed to hotel bar or lounge. For […]