Travel Guides

  If you prefer to watch the video about this holiday click here You can expect to eat well, extraordinarily well in Crete and, what is more, you may even come home feeling a bit better than you did when… Read More

To watch the video about this holiday click here One of the best things about a small group walking tour is getting to know your fellow walkers. You start off as a bunch of strangers, different ages, different backgrounds but,… Read More

To watch the video of this trip, please click here How to describe the journey of a lifetime? Its rare indeed for me to have the opportunity to do a three week trip and its always a thrill to explore… Read More

If you’d prefer to watch the video click here Ajman, I hear you ask, where’s that? You would not be the first, almost everyone I’ve mentioned it to asks the same. It is actually the smallest of the seven United Arab… Read More

If you’d rather watch a video than read > click here Tiptoe through the tulips with me… In the depths of winter its hard to imagine how all the bare earth, naked trees and seemingly dead bushes will ever come… Read More

If you prefer to watch the video, click here A word of warning, Riga can be a pain in the neck. At eye level, the city is attractive enough but, to really appreciate its beauty, trust me, you will spend… Read More

If you’d rather watch the video than read, click here May 2017 – I joined a group of travel journalists on a press trip exploring two of Indonesia’s iconic wildlife spots – getting up close to Orang Utans and the… Read More

Some 500 miles long and dotted with over a thousand islands, not to mention stunning National Parks, medieval towns and tempting restaurants there are literally hundreds of things along Croatia’s coastline to keep visitors entertained. Its tough to pick just… Read More

If you’d rather watch a video than read, click here Carrying just 36 passengers and weighing in under 500 tonnes, the Princess Eleganza is tiny, more yacht than shiplike – its a completely different experience to what could be described… Read More

If you’d rather watch than read, click here for the video It is not possible to tire of New York – it’s always thrilling and there is always something new to discover. Winter is a particularly good time to go… Read More

If you’d rather watch the video than read, click here Getting to Martinique is now a lot more affordable thanks to low cost airline Norwegian.com’s add on flights from New York, Boston and Fort Lauderdale opening up the possibilities for… Read More

If you’d rather watch a video than read, click here The Isle of Wight has always been firm family favourite – no prizes as to why; its easy and cheap to get there, there’s miles of gorgeous safe family beaches… Read More

If you’d rather watch a video than read, click here With a long season extending from early Spring right through to late Autumn, Cyprus is a perfect choice if you are craving a blue sky fix. Even through winter, the… Read More

If you’d rather watch a video than read click here Best known as a banker for a winter sun holiday, Gran Canaria is as popular as ever with those who want no more from a holiday than a sun lounger,… Read More

  If you’d rather watch a video than read click here Once you’ve ticked the key tourist boxes, the real joy of San Francisco is in its distinctive neighbourhoods – there are more than 27 of them and each demands… Read More

If you’d rather watch a video than read click here Nothing can prepare you for the jaw dropping moment when you drive in to Yosemite Valley for the very first time. I found myself on repeat with ‘wow, wow, wow’… Read More

If you’d rather watch a video than read > click here Its never too early to start planning a trip to the Edinburgh Festival. The world’s largest Arts Festival takes over this Scottish capital for three weeks every August and is always… Read More

We are now nearing the peak of bluebell beauty here in East Sussex. Seems like 2016 could be a vintage year for these gorgeous, perfectly formed, bell shaped flowers. In my neck of the woods (Danehill) dazzling blue carpets have sprung up all over, often interspersed with white… Read More

Things are happening down on the farm in Puglia…mostly they are turning into B+B’s and luxury boutique hotels. If you want to truly engage with the rural tranquillity that Puglia undoubtedly offers – the ancient olive trees, flower filled meadows… Read More

We were back in Palm Springs over the New Year and it seems mean not to share what was, for us, a highlight of our Southern California trip. Like most highlights, this one came about by recommendation from a local… Read More

Normally on a beach you’d be facing the sea but here, settled on my sun lounger, the view before me is a city skyline complete with a sweep of skycrapers. I look left and, in the distance, yet more dramatic… Read More

It opened last month but today I got my first look at Heathrow’s shiny new Terminal 2 courtesy of one of its first resident airlines, EVA Air. Anxious to avoid the fiasco that overshadowed the launch of Terminal 5 back… Read More