Europe
Why Walking on La Gomera is so Difficult
The irony is that it’s not the terrain that makes walking on La Gomera potentially difficult – well, it is in so much as you’re nearly always either going up… […]
Articles by Jack
Gran Canaria
Review of Hotel Rural Las Tirajanas in Gran Canaria
The Hotel Rural Las Tirajanas occupies the most incredible position, overlooking a wide, green valley hemmed in by sheer volcanic cliffs… […]
Catalonia
Slow Travel Though Towns and Villages in the Pyrenees
In the case of our last visit to The Pyrenees it was the latter. Long walks across rolling hills, over sharp peaks and through drowsy villages… […]
Croatia
A Mind Reading Waiter in Konoba Menego in Hvar
Konoba Menega is tucked away up a narrow side street away leading from the harbour in Hvar Town to the fortress on the hill. I know, I know – all authentic… […]
Catalonia
Stormy Weather and Chamois at Ulldeter in the Pyrenees
Our ascent through the partly rocky, partly grassy gorge to the Refugi d’Ulldeter was one of those climbs where it was difficult not to beam like a loon… […]
Croatia
Is this the Worst Waitress in Croatia?
There are a handful of restaurants in Pomena on Mljet. Most have full frontal views of a too-pretty-to-be-true emerald lake. One doesn’t… […]
Travel Talk
Travel Changes You… or Does it?
Tucked away in the top of a wardrobe are a couple of pairs of baggy cotton trousers and a load of tops that although not quite dashiki or tie-dye are of a certain ‘travel’ style. […]
Food & drink
Barman, Pour Me a Marrakech
Marrakech by its non-alcoholic nature doesn’t have an authentic bar scene… even though it does have a bar scene. […]
Europe
An Afternoon in Agaete and Puerto de las Nieves on Gran Canaria
Puerto de Las Nieves and its big brother, Agaete (with which it is almost joined at the hip) are quite quirky little places that deserve more than a passing glance from the car window. […]
Croatia
Review of Hotel Lapad in Dubrovnik
The Hotel Lapad looks like one of those grand hotels from another era, its lovely Victorian façade lending it a style that is befitting of the halcyon days of travel. […]
Croatia
Swimming Boars, Mad Commandos and Sime Fio on Hvar
Within an hour of arriving at the Hotel Podstine in Hvar we are sitting in the sun, overlooking one of those perfect rocky coves that Croatia does so well… […]
Europe
World Cuisine, Recipe for French Shepherd’s Pie (Boeuf au Gratin)
It had been a while since we’d cooked boeuf au gratin and we’d completely forgotten how its flavours bring on a completely over the top bout of the ‘bravos’… […]
Croatia
The Complicated Business of Buying a Snack in Zadar
It was lunchtime. It was hot. We fancied a drink and we were ready for our first snack in Zadar; some local goodie which would get on famously with a bottle… […]
Europe
Walking Across Gran Canaria from the Mountains to the Sea
As we didn’t know for sure that we could find routes that enabled us to walk from the hills above Maspalomas all the way to Agaete on Gran Canaria, there was… […]
Europe
Checking into Tunte, or San Bartolomé de Tirajana, on Gran Canaria
For a small place Tunte has bags of interesting and curious corners; secret alleys with cobblestones and rusty old pant plots filled with… […]