Egypt smokes 19 billion cigarettes: maybe it’s time to quit?
It’s been a long time between drinks, as we say, and life has overtaken the blog. But I was awoken from my somnambulant state by a link to a BBC […]
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Canter past Patagonian icefields. Sail the tranquil waters of Lake Como in Italy. Sip coffee in a Palestinian village. Listen to the ancient voices of Australia’s Arnhem Land. Climb the mountain paths of northern Albania. Let’s go!
Hot to shop: Manila
The reason why a week in Manila was so manic: because I needed to discover the underbelly of the city, from the grandly named Mall of Asia to the street […]
Travel guide to Dublin
Ta-daaaaaaaaaah! It’s Dublin. Hopefully all you need to know (and some you didn’t). But try to squish a city into two pages, and there’ll be some casualties. Click here to […]
Things that get me excited in the Philippines.
So I was in the Philippines last week, and in a post-tropics slump, all I feel inclined to show you is this picture. Now, it doesn’t look so amazing, but […]
Barra dreaming
The fish are elusive, the ancient rock art sensational and camp conditions suited to gourmet tastes at Kimberley Coastal Camp, in northern Australia. ”You’ll be right at Mitchell Plateau airstrip,” […]
Mummy’s the word in beauty
Ass’s milk may be off the menu but there are other ways to feel like Cleopatra. It’s a truism that to become beautiful, you become sinfully ugly in the process. […]
Delhi days – the final countdown
It’s hot and the pollution is thick as Vegemite back in Delhi and it’s only 6am. Love a good start to the day. Delhi’s main train station is doubling as […]
Stuck at the Jammu railway station
From first glance, there’s not a whole lot going for Jammu, one of the main towns of the northern Indian region of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). The areas around railway […]
Pony trekking in Kashmir
Unfortunately, there is rather more trekking and far less pony action that I’d hoped on this pony trek in the Kashmir valley. Not too early this morning, after a small […]
A quick drive in the Kashmir Valley
So we’re in the jeep gunning it to the hiking trailhead of Naranagh, in central Kashmir. We are: my guide, Salim, the driver Daba and a small white chicken from […]