It’s not unusual in an English bed and breakfast to wake up to the smell of frying bacon. Whether you’re staying away from home on business or pleasure and whatever the day holds in store for you, there are few better ways to kick off proceedings than with a no-holds barred full English breakfast. Yet [...]
I’m currently arranging a new mobile phone contract. In common with most people I have very low expectations of the customer service I’m likely to receive. This is borne out of years of bitter experience. While the staff often appear incapable of connecting my phone to a functioning network at the price I signed up [...]
So say the BBC, The Telegraph, The Observer and many other publications in relation to the chances of seeing the aurora borealis in 2012. A whole host of tour operators and cruise companies have lapped up this quote and without any apparent scrutiny added it to their press releases and websites. Look at anyone offering Northern [...]
As so often happens, the comments section of my recent post looking at what inspires us to choose our travel destinations has proved to be more interesting than my original entry. Both Maxine Sheppard and Pam Mandel highlighted the role that the history of a place can play in enticing us to visit; I was reminded [...]
We were in Budapest for barely 48 hours, yet on four occasions we watched in despair as a bus pulled away in front of us and left us waiting in the cold. Every connection was missed by a whisker, each time we stood and stared as our bus disappeared into the December gloom. It’s not [...]
Magazine articles, blogs, TV shows, even apps: all make regular claims to help inspire us to choose our next holiday destination. Some of these must work for there to be enough advertising money floating around to keep so many people in business. But so much of what is out there doesn’t inspire me at all. [...]
It is one of the most common traps for anyone writing a blog: I’ve been to a place so I must write about it. As if the act of merely being somewhere is a story worthy of telling to the world. Let’s face it; sometimes we visit a place and while it may be nice [...]
Information is power, or so we are repeatedly told. We may be living in a consumerist society, but a closer look around us and we see that what we are increasingly consuming is not tangible goods but information and data. We can flick through the latest news stories while we work; we receive instant alerts [...]
Budapest has long been an important European capital, sitting as it does pretty much in the centre of the continent and straddling the mighty Danube. A succession of invaders have left their mark on the skyline of Budapest and evidence of 20th century European battles is easy to uncover. Budapest is home to dozens of [...]
What better way to summarise a year of travel than with a few poorly collated photographs? I hope that some of these make you hungry (I’m fairly sure that quite a few of them won’t)
Freelance writer and lifelong traveller. I currently manage several blogs for clients in the travel industry (see 'Client Blogs' tab). I also provide a wide variety of web content, magazine articles and copywriting services.
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