Gran Canaria
Walking With a Very Naughty Dog on Gran Canaria
Hada, apparently, has a habit of keeping walkers company as they go exploring the green and pleasant land that is the north of Gran Canaria… […]
Europe
England
Review of City Warehouse Apartment Hotel, Manchester
City Warehouse Apartment Hotel’s big attraction is that the apartments are gorgeous. They are so good that I felt I could quite easily live there… […]
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. […]
Croatia
Photo Guide to Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia
Heavy rains preceded our arrival at Plitvice Lakes National Park and although they’d stopped, the sky was still mean and moody… […]
Croatia
The Most Beautiful Sunset in the World is in Zadar
As the sun started to droop, we waved down a ferryman, sailed to Zadar’s old town, traversed its glinting cobbled streets and plonked ourselves down on a wall… […]
Great Britain
Strathpeffer Railway Station and the Museum of Childhood Memories
It’s been a long, long time since roaring dragons huffed and puffed into Strathpeffer’s Victorian station, billowing excitedly… […]
Food & drink
The Curious Case of TripAdvisor and the Canary Islands
However, whilst checking out reviews for the Canary Islands recently, my research threw up a major flaw with TripAdvisor’s restaurant reviews… […]
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. […]
Gran Canaria
Trekking in Paradise, Walking in the Canary Islands
Having walked on five of the seven Canary Islands, or six of eight if you include La Graciosa, we’ve been wowed by every one… […]
Food & drink
The Problem With Earth Hour
I realise ‘minimising the impact’ isn’t the point of Earth Hour but I’m pretty sure neither is scrambling about in the dark in danger of knocking over candles… […]
Europe
City Guide to Santa Cruz de La Palma
As gateway to an island as rich in natural treasures as it is poor in mass tourism, the city offers its own blend of history, architecture, shopping and dining. […]
Food & drink
Why I’m Not Eating the Local Cuisine Tonight
It should be against some sort of travel law not to wrap your teeth around something peculiar to the country you’re visiting, or even something peculiar… […]
Food & drink
From Secret Cinemas to Timples, a Guide to Teguise in Lanzarote
Teguise is the prettiest town on Lanzarote and feels as though its maze of streets lined by whitewashed buildings hasn’t changed much in centuries. […]
England
The Day I learned to Fly A Tiger Moth
The Tiger Moth had a top speed of about 80mph (I’d driven faster on the way to the airfield) which to me seemed far too slow to keep something this size in the air. […]
Spain
Put on Your High Heels Honey, It’s Tenerife Carnival’s Drag Marathon
The Mascarita Ponte Tacón, known in English as the High Heels Drag Marathon, in Puerto de la Cruz has become one of the highlights of Tenerife’s carnival calender… […]