OK I have a confession to make. I did something that I usually don’t do when travelling. I bought a ticket for the Antwerp sight-seeing bus. I do have a couple of good excuses though. I was in Antwerp courtesy of visit Flanders after visiting the architectural gem that is Ghent… I was limited with time. Antwerp Heatwave […]
It had been a hot humid day in Antwerp and the last thing I wanted to be doing is rolling my wheelie luggage shamefully through a crowd of young people partying away at a the zomerbar. It was quite late, after 10, but the party was just getting going at Nulsterrenpension the zero stars hotel (hostel). After […]
I admit that I’m not the type of traveller who likes to plan or research much. I’ve been known to get off a plane without knowing where to go or where to stay. For me, part of the adventure is in the surprises that you find and I find so many more when I’ve done […]
Our visit to Copenhagen was strategically planned in order for us to meet head on with the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. It sounded like the perfect plan: summertime, good music, outdoors, bustling atmosphere and people everywhere. July couldn’t come soon enough. It didn’t happen quite as I imagined though, here’s why. Jazz Outdoors? There weren’t as […]
A wave of dust and debris blew over me as I turned my back and protected my camera’s lens, an RAF Sea King helicopter dramatically landed in front of us carrying the Olympic flame from Athens. Local Community Spirit The scene so far at Land’s End for the start of the Olympic torch relay had been […]
A salt mine you say? Doesn’t sound that exciting does it? Well, the Wieliczka Salt Mine was the location for the world’s first underground bungee jump and also the first underground hot air balloon flight. If that doesn’t impress you and give you a feel for the scale of the mine then it’s also worth […]
The first thing I did, in my hotel room, after a bath was very simple. The ‘to visit’ list. And the first place which caught my eye was waiting for me on the southern tip of Israel. This trip to Israel is my first trip in the middle-east. I was all pumped up to visit […]
As a consultant covering South East Asia I often get to travel to some interesting and unusual places, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia in the last few months. However recently a regional client asked us to help them in another market, just outside our usual sphere of influence, therefore at the end of March I travelled […]
The sky was bleak, charcoal grey and the trees were stark without leaves. The scene was just what you’d expect from the Nazi’s largest extermination centre, Auschwitz II – Birkenau. I stood alongside a railway track trying to focus on where the track ends. The visibility was pretty poor due to the pouring rain, my […]
Olympic fever is close to taking over London and the rest of the globe is slowly but surely turning its sporting focus towards the UK in anticipation of what is arguably the world’s best known, most loved and most important sports event. The origin of the Olympic games is also well-known with Greek traditions and […]
Head to the heart of the old quarter of Baeza and you step back in time. Narrow streets, gorgeous sandstone monuments and balconies oozing a riot of colours. Baeza, in Jaén province, has been named “Exemplar Renaissance City” by the European Council and is twinned with the larger Ubeda as “Historic-Artistic Ensemble” by UNESCO. Both have fabulous 16th […]
It had been a very long time since I’d last been to York, I was about 11 at the time and still have vague memories of the distinct smells of the Jorvik Viking Centre. On our visit to York I was taken back with how much there is on offer in terms of attractions. There […]
