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Second Time In...Berlin

Recommending any itinerary of Berlin is trickier than most cities. Not because you’re short of things to do, far from it. No, it always...

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Second Time In...Berlin

Recommending any itinerary of Berlin is trickier than most cities. Not because you’re short of things to do, far from it. No, it always...

5 Perfect European City Breaks for Mother’s Day

Mums deserve the best, and by “best,” my logic obviously extends to travel. I’ve been taking weekend breaks with my mum for the past...

Top 5 Tapas in Madrid...and Where To Find It

If there’s one thing Madrilenos will not tolerate it’s bad tapas. Not intended as a sedate activity, locals crawl from bar-to-bar...

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5 Best Travel Reads for World Book Day

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen In my case,...

24 hours in Malaga

In describing their city as ‘la ciudad redona’ (the all-round city), you could be forgiven for thinking the local authorities are damning...

24 hours in...Wanaka, New Zealand

Wanaka, a dreamy lakeside town in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, is the kind of place that makes you wonder why you haven’t moved here yet....

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 When you think of “island hopping” Scotland isn’t the first place that springs to mind. Neither is it a destination you associate with bright blue skies and crystal clear waters. But the Western Isles defy belief in their beauty.

⛴️ Iona is a mission to get to - 4 hours and 3 ferry rides from the mainland. It’s permanent population is less than 200 and it takes less than an hour to walk across end to end. Most Brits, myself included, couldn’t have placed it on a map before coming but that’s all part of its mystique.

😇 Dubbed Scotland’s most sacred place, an abbey has stood on this site for nearly 1,500 years since St Columba landed here in 563AD. His successors produced The Book of Kells - as now seen in Trinity College, Dublin - before fleeing to island in the face of Viking raids.

🙏Iona remains a spiritual hotspot with the Iona Community - a refreshingly inclusive Christian group - hosting retreats and running many of the facilities on the island. There’s not a whole lot to do but just walking the landscape and taking in the air was a wonderful day trip. Sometimes being at the end of civilisation is good for the soul…whatever belief system you choose to follow.

Blog definitely coming soon!

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One year ago, I achieved a long-held travel goal by road tripping Patagonia. 🇦🇷🇨🇱

While a week will never be enough, you can squeeze a hell of a lot in with an independent itinerary - hiking, landscapes and some 5,000 year old glacier ice in your whiskey 🥃🧊

With @thecumbriantravelman we packed a hell of a lot in and
I’ve now written an article for @weareglobaltravellers on the ideal Patagonia road trip itinerary if time is short.

Penang holds two titles that feel incongruous - Malaysia’s food capital and its centre of street art 🇲🇾

Both titles are entirely merited and a flying visit was just enough time to fall in love with both 😋

New blog - 24hrs in Penang - now live

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Whether vrooming around Saguaro National Park with @tucsonebikeadventures 🌵 or dancing through downtown Tucson 🕺 (no, really) with @silentadventuresaz , there are a whole host of fantastic tours to maximise your time in Southern Arizona.

Take a peak at this guide of the best tours in and around Tucson, written by the fantastic @bmorenomadic which I contributed to. Link in bio.

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Rome is on track to hit record its highest number of visitors in decades in 2025, thanks to the Catholic Jubilee. 🇮🇹🇻🇦

Even if you’re not one of the faithful, that shouldn’t stop you visiting but fail to plan ahead and that line for the Colosseum will resemble Dante’s Seventh Circle of Hell. 😱

From reconfiguring your day to cooling off in the Pope’s Lake to finding gelato you won’t need a second mortgage for, my new article (written for @the_indiependent) shows you how to dodge the worst of the crowds and fall in love with all the Eternal City has to offer. ❤️🍨🛶

Link to article in bio.

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Berlin is a city you could return to a thousand times and have a different experience every visit. Quite simply it’s one of the greatest cities on Earth.

For a repeat visitor who has experienced the main sites, now is the time to go a little more offbeat…including…

🚘 Driving a 1970s Trabi round the city centre, swearing profusely every time the damn thing stalls

🇩🇪 Explore Berlin’s history more deeply - you literally can’t avoid it and there’s a ton to learn to better understand the modern city and country

🍸 Enjoy the underground speakeasy scene and the incredible range of offbeat bars, including Klo “Europe’s Only Toilet Themed Pub”

🥾Get out of town to Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island) and Teufelsburg (Devil’s Mountain) - the latter entirely man made from WW2 rubble and debris

New blog - Second Time in Berlin - now live. Link in bio

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🇮🇹 Only an hour from Rome by train, Orvieto is one of Italy’s best kept secrets. It has architecture to rival Florence and views that hold up to any Tuscany can offer but receives a fraction of the tourists. Frankly that makes it all the more attractive in my eyes.

💀Orvieto’s highlight is unquestionably its 13th century cathedral. Striped like a marble candy cane, it glows in the afternoon sun. The inside is even more eye-catching, particularly the frescoes in San Brizio’s chapels. Have a scroll right if you’re in the mood for some kinky skeletons…

🍷 Orvieto also produces a delicious local white wine - Orvieto Clasico. Crisp, dry and all too drinkable with a ragu al cingiale at lunchtime. I’m still unimpressed instagram doesn’t have an emoji for white wine!

🏛️ Orvieto’s history predates the Duomo - the modern(ish) city is built on a network of Etruscan (pre-Roman) tunnels, some of which can be visited. Above ground, the views out to the Umbrian countryside are top tier!

Whether a day trip from Rome or a road trip destination post Tuscany, Orvieto is one of my favourite Italian cities and a worthy addition to any itinerary.

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🇰🇷🇰🇵 A decade to the day on from one of my most twilight zone travel experiences - the DMZ in Panmunjom, which divides North and South Korea.

🪖 Surreal is putting mildly - soldiers from both sides face each other across what looks like a set of 1970s prefab classrooms. The North Koreans remain at attention, the South Koreans adopt a Taekwondo pose.

📸 Tourists are permitted but - understandably, given it’s the most militarised border on the planet - there’s a ton of bureaucracy associated with visiting. Unsmiling US soldiers give VERY strict instructions on what you can and can’t take photos of before you set foot on the site. The latter includes the literal hundreds of surveillance cameras above your head.

🤝 The South Koreans made a big deal of the dream of unification including a huge (empty) station of anticipation of the day high speed trains run from Seoul to Pyongyang without delay…all a bit eerie. That said, the station store - catering exclusively for tourists - did stock North Korean fruit brandy, personally approved by Kim Jong Un apparently. Plus authentic barbed wire from the border. One of the world’s odder souvenir shops.

🌏 The actual border is located inside the huts so technically this means I’ve set foot in North Korea but that feels like a bit of a stretch in the country count. I didn’t think it diplomatic to ask the guards, just in case a new country was accompanied by a sudden disappearance…

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