3 Great Places For Filipino Food In Manila
The Philippines’ sprawling capital may not be the first place that springs to mind for a gastronomic city break – understandably most tourists who fly to The Philippines are headed for one or more of...
View ArticleIn Photos: The Chocolate Hills of Bohol, The Philippines
The Filipino Island of Bohol is best known for two things: tarsiers and what I came to think of as an exaggerated teletubby land known as The Chocolate Hills, a strange landscape of 1,268 eerie and...
View ArticleHistory & Lessons: Manila’s American Cemetery & Memorial
If you have only a short time in which to experience Manila you might think that a visit to a cemetery shouldn’t be at the top of your must-do list? But a trip to the sobering and thought-provoking...
View ArticleIn Photos – A Day Trip To Brunei
I’d always wanted to visit The Sultanate of Brunei but somehow it had never happened – until circumstances brought me to the Brunei capital Bendar Seri Begawan on a great value Royal Brunei Airlines...
View ArticleThe Perfect Place To Stay in Hong Kong – The Cosmopolitan & The Cosmo Hotel...
I say the Cosmo is the perfect place to stay in Hong Kong but frankly my dears I’ve never actually stayed anywhere else. Because once I found The Cosmo with its boutique concept, ice-cream sundae...
View ArticleA Hong Kong Photo Tour
East meets West, British order overlaid on Chinese culture, perpetually expanding upwards into the sky and outwards into the ocean. Grab an eyeful of the confluence of capitalism, colonialism and...
View ArticleThe Burma Tipping Point
Recently, while travelling without a set plan around Asia, one destination kept coming up time and time again – if there is such a thing as a tipping point, then for me, Burma has just tipped. Everyone...
View ArticleWould You Take Your Shoes Off At Pol Pot’s House?
Like everyone else, I take my shoes off and leave them in the pile before entering the last place Pol Pot ever lived, out here in the Northern Cambodian district of Anlong Veng, nestled against the...
View ArticleHow To Do A 10 Point End Of Tax Year Assessment – Travel Blogger Style
This week a brand new tax year started, and those in traditional jobs have been running year-end assessments and shuffling spreadsheets left, right and centre. So I thought I’d do some rather taxing...
View ArticleWhere To Have (And To Hold) Tarantulas In Phnom Penh – Romdeng Restaurant
I arrive at Romdeng restaurant ten minutes late as is my wont, but on this occasion I can’t blame the Northern Line. Rushing through the streets of Phnom Penh on foot has left me a lot more sweaty than...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Stylish Places To Stay In Siem Reap
From budget boutique bolt-holes to blow-the-budget palaces Siem Reap has it all – in fact it’s hard to imagine a single town in the world with a better selection of stylish places to stay. Here are my...
View ArticleHow To Go Off-Hotel In Dubai
It’s probably the perfect stopover destination, poised physically between the Far East and Europe and offering the chance to experience a truly exotic world in between. But most of Dubai’s life is...
View ArticleA 10 Second Guide To Doing It ‘Dampa Style’ In The Philipines
Welcome to the best thing I discovered during my time in The Philippines – doing it ‘dampa style’. Do it once and you’ll just want to do it all over again the next night. And the next. Be warned the...
View ArticleSavoir There World Food Awards 2013
As the year drew to a close I found myself writing a post recapping my favourite travel memories of 2013 and I learned a couple of things about myself in the process – firstly that many of my favourite...
View ArticleMy Cambodian Cooking Class
Regular readers might have noticed that I tend to take a cooking class in almost every destination I visit; for me there’s now better way get under the skin of a country than to find out about the...
View ArticleStylish Sihanoukville – 6 Ways To Stay Chic In Cambodia’s Beach Town
Sihanoukville and style aren’t two concepts that always go together. But while some tourists feel that Cambodia’s coastal town isn’t worth visiting - its reputation precedes it and not always in a...
View ArticleValentine Hotel Hotlist: 6 Sexy Places To Spend Time With A Special Someone
A romantic weekend away for Valentine’s Day – sounds like a great idea in principle, right? But as anyone who has tried to book even a simple night away with their partner already knows, the process of...
View ArticleFlashback Friday: Guilty Pleasures Of Backpcking In Bali
The Indonesian island of Bali was the first ‘exotic’ place to which I ever travelled, so it will always occupy a pretty special place in my memory – and it’s probably the only time I can truly say I’ve...
View ArticleThe Real Life Brexiter: Swapping the malaise for Malaysia
Brexit has caused more Brits than ever to start turning dreams of living overseas into a reality. So I decided to start a series asking real life Brexiters – those who’ve already left the UK for...
View ArticleWIN! A 2 Night Stay In Hong Kong + More For Chinese New Year
Traditional New Year may be well and truly over, but somehow it’s STILL January, leaving most of us with a serious case of the blues. Luckily Chinese New Year is here and that means another reason to...
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