Food & drink
Octopus and Squid are Lovely not Rubbery
Hands up all those people who think eating squid or octopus is not a lot of different from having a chew on the tyre of your car… […]
Travel Talk
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… […]
Food & drink
Why Ignoring Vegetarians is Total Madness for Restaurants
Over a number of years of being sneered at in restaurants when I revealed I didn’t eat meat, I developed an empathy for the plight of the average vegetarian… […]
Travel Talk
The Time Traveller
Sometimes the smallest thing can trigger a memory so strong that for a moment you time travel, actually re-living an event the way you did at the time; an out of body experience that places you back in that foreign land… […]
Travel Talk
Professional Travel Bloggers Association or the TBU Book of Travel Bloggers?
The creation of the Professional Travel Bloggers Association and TBU’s Book of Travel Bloggers seem like steps in the right direction to give… […]
Great Britain
Why Social Media & Social Travel Market Sessions Didn’t Rock My Room
This was just one of the reasons that the Social Media & Social Travel Market sessions just didn’t do it for me and why it represented the only disappointing aspect of… […]
England
The World Travel Market 2012 in Photos
The World Travel Market is a huge shrine to the best of the world’s destinations with wonders and surprises around every corner. […]
England
London Transport To World Travel Market Through the Eyes of a Visitor
“The next stop”, “mind the doors” and “change here for…” intones over the pa system in a bright, BBC accent while all around voices talk on phones and to each other in languages that bring the globe within a single carriage. […]
Travel Talk
The Good, the Bad & the Spin at World Travel Market 2012
It’s difficult to know where to start when trying to rein in my thoughts about World Travel Market 2012 in London… […]
Food & drink
Hungry to Discover Gastro-Hike Destinations
Some destinations offer great walking but functional rather than outstanding food; in other places you can gorge on the finest of food but then not have any… […]
Travel Talk
Take Advantage of TripAdvisor’s Free Business Consultancy
There can be few people in the travel and tourism industry who fail to recognise the importance of TripAdvisor to holiday consumers. Love it or hate it, TripAdvisor is a tourism tour de force. […]
Travel Talk
Tips on Becoming a Professional Travel Blogger
Finding bloggers who can make the jump from writing for themselves to being a professional blogger hasn’t always been easy and many times we’ve had to say… […]
Food & drink
Don’t Eat Where Locals Eat and Do Stay on the Beaten Track
Some feel like tired clichés and rehashed mantras handed down from a world weary travel guru whose views are as faded as their once khaki jeans. […]
Hiking
La Palma’s Guiding Lights
There is never any substitute for the mass of experience and knowledge about a place that is stored in the memories of those for whom a destination is their home and their livelihood… […]
Travel Talk
Why travel blogging can provoke negativity
Sometimes when I read posts and comments about travel bloggers being nice to each other all of the time I get a vision of one of those Nirvana worlds on Star Trek… […]