Jellyfish Soup
When you’re loading camels up with scuba tanks, you know you’re off on an adventure. Enough of an adventure, in fact, to overcome my longstanding...
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Exploring Tyre Old Town
Given the chap with the moustache has offered intensive, and, further, only discreetly amused assistance in my parking fiasco, I feel we should eat in...
My Son’s Brain Is Weird
Here in Aqaba, a coastal town in Jordan which is gunning for second city status but has all the verve and vigour of Bournemouth on...
Seven Things That Make Cairo Worth the Hassle
Now, it is easy to whinge about Cairo – and, lord knows, I have! Frankly, as a visibly foreign female visitor, tourist Cairo makes the...
April Fool’s Day in Cairo
One of the things my son and I try to do, as we travel the world, is to celebrate occasions we would celebrate in the...
What Does A Kid Do For Four Days In The Desert?
What DO you do for four days in the Sinai desert, if you’re an eleven-year-old kid? You roll down dunes, slide down dunes, swim down...
The Friday Photo: Quadbiking the Sinai Desert
As a mode of exploring anywhere, quadbiking checks all the wrong boxes. It’s noisy, polluting, carbon-intensive, touristy and, in some places, environmentally destructive — but...
A Big Day Out
How much of London can you see in a single day? Armed with a London Pass and the very best intentions to get out of...
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...