Destinations

I’ve been travelling internationally for more than 20 years and have visited more than 80 countries, so I’ve planned my fair share of complicated trips. But my recent Central Asia [...]

For most people, crossing the US-Mexico border by bus for the first time sounds daunting. It doesn’t have to be that. Many of the routes that cross this line, such as Los Angeles to [...]

When we travelled through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, I wasn’t setting out to create a restaurant guide. We were simply hungry. Sometimes we were looking for somewhere special. Sometimes we [...]

Before this trip, I knew very little about Central Asian food. I knew about plov. I knew there was a lot of meat. And, if I’m being completely honest, I wasn’t entirely sure what else [...]

If you’re travelling through Uzbekistan and spending a few days in Samarkand, there is a very tempting little box you can tick. Tajikistan. Done. Another Stan added to the list. And [...]

Could there be a more beautiful hotel view? If you’re looking for a Nesuto Docklands review from someone who actually stayed there, you’re in the right place. During a surprise trip [...]

Moving to Orlando can sound appealing when you picture warm winters, palm trees, entertainment, and no state individual income tax. But visiting a city and living there are very different [...]

Family travel writing has a strange gap in it. There is an enormous amount of advice about flying with a toddler, and almost nothing about what to do once that toddler is fourteen, taller than [...]

There is something addictive about a Canadian road trip. One minute you are cruising along a seemingly endless highway, the next you are pulling into a tiny roadside town, stopping for a [...]

Almost every bad Hvar arrival story begins on the mainland, and nearly all of them were preventable a month earlier at a laptop. The island is easy to reach. It is not, however, one destination [...]