Seth Carver’s a rule breaker, but is he a heartbreaker? When Jenna Freeborn scores a two-week house sit in a Hampstead mansion, she’s ecstatic. There’s just one snag in posh paradise – the owner’s stepson, Seth, who lives in the back garden. Determined to enjoy the house and pool, Jenna ignores[…]
When the Dead Sea has been on your bucket list for years, it’s only natural to want to know how to easily access it from your hotel, in this case the Mövenpick Resort and Spa Dead Sea. Which is why I’m totally confused by the map that looks like something[…]
When the chance came to fly business class in QSuites from Auckland to Doha I hesitated before agreeing to the booking. I knew the 17.5 hour leg from Auckland to Doha was going to be a killer. I get impatient on long haul flights with the usual 12 + stopover[…]
After spending one uncomfortably hot night in the Moxy, we checked out and moved next door to the Hampton By Hilton Edinburgh Airport. We’d stayed in its sister airport hotel in Hoofddorp Amsterdam and had been quietly impressed with the quality of the rooms. Chris was flying down to Reading[…]
There are two hop-on hop-off type bus tours you can do in Auckland with both starting points conveniently placed outside the SkyTower. We chose the central red route on the Soaring Kiwi Tours bus because it was slightly cheaper at $35. The other was the Auckland Explorer Bus which cost[…]
One of the most popular nights in Britain is Guy Fawkes on the 5th November. Traditionally this was a time to light bonfires to celebrate the fact that King James I survived the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. The ‘Plot’ was a failed assassination attempt by a bunch of Protestants to blow[…]
Arrival My train journey from Cheltenham to Weymouth turns out to be a long, tiring one underlined by service delays. At one point I’m not sure if I will get there at all but after 7 1/2 hours I make it and head off in the direction of the waterfront.[…]
Arrival Alice Guest House is around a 20 minute walk from Cheltenham Spa train station. It’s not ideal but I don’t want to fork out for a cab, and the host couldn’t tell me what bus to catch when I rang earlier, so walking it is. The area that the[…]
Enroute to Cheltenham Spa from Norwich, I booked into another Hotel Ibis overnight, this time in Leicester. Like the other Ibis in Nottingham it was close to the train station, within a 10 minute walk, but this one was a newish looking brick establishment on a busy main road. I[…]
The weather doesn’t look too promising with spits of rain threatening to turn into something heavier, so I’m glad the Central Hotel is perfectly placed for a short trundle down from the Norwich train station with my luggage. The check-in process is easy and the friendly receptionist shows me to room[…]