The island archipelago of Cape Verde is a rising destination when it comes to Europeans seeking a winter sun holiday. Packages are commonly available to the main fly and flop destinations of Boavista and Sal, but inter-island flights are now more plentiful, which makes island hopping both cost effective and[…]
Like many people, the famous salt flats near Uyuni in Bolivia were top of my bucket list. I finally got to realise the dream and it didn’t disappoint. Here’s what I learnt from my trip. 1. Don’t rule out a tour Your backpacking days might be over, but taking a[…]
I’m not a fan of organised tours. I love travelling solo and it’s rare to find a good value holiday. There’s something irritating about being penalised for choosing to travel alone and then be charged a supplement. It’s even worse when you arrive at the hotel to find that as[…]
So much world, so little time. If I could, I’d be on the road constantly, but in real life I have commitments that tie me to home and like most of us, budget constraints that cannot be ignored. So what are the factors that I consider when deciding on future[…]
How do you juggle an infinite number of travel possibilities with a finite amount of money? There’s nothing worse than coming home from a trip to a pile of debts, so set a budget and stick to it. These useful tips will help stretch your budget and plan more effectively.[…]
The trouble with being the jumping off point for somewhere as magnificent as Machu Picchu is that there’s a tendency for some visitors to pare back their Cusco itinerary in favour of making sufficient time to trek the Inca Trail. But a brief stopover in a city as enchanting as[…]
There are 136 roses painted on the wall in front of me. They surround a list of years from 1961 to 1989: the years that the wall divided this city. But the roses aren’t distributed evenly. There are thick clusters around the earliest dates, yet some of the later years[…]
Tiny droplets of sea spray prick my cheeks and cling to my glasses. The rain has finally eased though pregnant clouds still blacken the sky. Despite the hit and miss weather, this stretch of the Italian coastline still manages to live up to the high expectations of the many tourists who visit[…]
My first encounter with the New York chutzpah came not in real life but watching Melanie Griffith as feisty secretary Tess Gill deal with Sigourney Weaver in the 1988 film Working Girl. It would be almost a decade before I rode the orange Staten Island ferry myself, but it signalled[…]
The headlines screamed their message: Ryanair had surpassed itself this time. Notorious for using airports far from the cities they claimed to represent, this time they’d really gone too far and the airport was in another country! But in this case, it wasn’t that big a deal. Even if they[…]