Next Time I’m Getting A Flu Shot
Until, ooh, about six weeks ago, I was one of those irritating people who’d bang on and on about their marvelous immune system and how...
Category: Travel Lifestyle
The Cutest City You’ve Never Heard Of…
Plovdiv Old Town is the single prettiest place we’ve visited since beautiful Lijiang in China. The city’s history is written in its walls. Successive generations...
The Friday Photo: Our Own Private… Bansko
One of the things I love about skiing is when you get the mountain to yourself. Yesterday, we worked our way through a couple of...
All Ski Instructors Are Not Created Equal
We meet Emil on a run down the mountain. Or, to be more precise, slightly off the mountain, where Z has landed in a half-arsed...
Travel Planning 2012 — Or, Getting My Sh*t Together, Sort Of
I had high hopes for our sojourn in Blighty. By approximately, umm, now, Z and I would have completed a whirlwind tour of the UK,...
2011: A Year In Random Numbers
Wonders of the World: 4 Uluru The Great Wall of China The Forbidden City Sydney Opera House The known world is rather bigger than it...
"Home" for Christmas
After almost two years travelling Asia, we’re back in the UK for Christmas. On a lot of levels, I’ve been anxious about this for a...
The Friday Photo: Christmas Lights, Hong Kong Style
Come Christmas time, the skyscrapers that line Hong Kong’s harbourfront compete for the best lightshows — perhaps the biggest Christmas lights on earth. But the...
Halloween in China
I wasn’t optimistic about celebrating Halloween in China. Not least because my Halloween track record has been pretty damn abysmal over most of my son’s...
Anyone for Chicken Claw?
Wandering around Kunming, our “home” for the past week, I sometimes feel a little like those British journalists inspecting America during the Gilded Age, marvelling...