Travel Talk
Everyone is in a Rush to be a Slow Traveller
Some people equate slow travel with tranquillity – peace, quiet and sleepy villages; as though absorbing a place can only be done somewhere where the… […]
Travel Talk
Travel Talk
Travel and Tourism Trends for 2014
The ITB World Travel Trends Report by Messe Berlin GmbH highlighted some surprises relating to current future travel trends. One thing that is certain in 2014 is… […]
Food & drink
Ten Travel Commandments or Travel Myths?
Ask a Local assumes every ‘local’ is a travel guru who knows all about history, culture, traditions and where there’s a secret attraction only locals know about. […]
Food & drink
Which is Better, Food from Ferran Adria or Zavaroni’s Chip Shop?
A blog I’ve just read got me pondering the difference between gourmet food and simple good food as well as the differences in people’s attitude to food. […]
Travel Talk
Travel and the Illusion of Choice
La Palma is a shining example of how travellers’ choices are still being moulded by the big boys of the tourism industry and those affiliated with it… […]
Food & drink
Are Brits Really Terrible Tourists?
We can’t be bothered to attempt to speak anybody else’s language. We only want to eat food we’re familiar with. We get outrageously drunk and either want to… […]
Spain
Take Off All Your Clothes, We’re about to Serve Tea
The masseur asked us if we’d like a cup of tea. There’s something very British about having a mid afternoon cup of tea, there’s something not at all British about being served a cup of tea when you’re naked… […]
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. […]
Croatia
Driving on Croatia
There are over 22,000 sq miles of Croatia to explore, including its host of islands that pepper the coast all the way from Istria to Dubrovnik. If you want to see as much of it as you can, a car may be your best option. […]
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. […]
Travel Talk
Not Another Blog About the Ethics of Travel Blogging
I’m bored reading about people beating themselves up regarding the ethics of travel blogging. I’m bored with those people who point long accusing fingers at… […]
Greece
Best Cruise Holidays for Instant Sunshine
If you want to reach the sun on a cruise later in the year, I can recommend Hawaii between December and April and this is also the ideal time to go whale… […]
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. […]
Travel Talk
Leave the iPhone in the Pocket, Travelling is About the Experience
Until Twitter et al came on the scene, we used to travel and totally absorb the wonderful new worlds we were exploring… […]