There’s more to Edinburgh than just the castle and Royal Mile. Apart from the grand structures featured in the previous post Elegant Edinburgh – The Old and New Town of…

This post is part of a series called Historic English country houses On a sunny day in the middle of March, my partner and I were in Warwickshire visiting a…

This post is part of a series called Around Italy An hour into our journey from Naples to Ischia, the ferry pulled into the harbour of Procida. I was treated to…

This post is part of a series called Around Italy When my partner and I visited Sorrento years ago, we took the ferry to the island of Capri for a…

This post is part of a series called Around Italy Most tourists arrive at Naples airport to go some place else, like we did when we went straight to Sorrento! …

This post is part of a series called English cities & towns When the dull, drizzly and dismal January seemed to stretch endlessly on to February, there’s one thing to…

This post is part of a series called China Odyssey 2024 When planning the trip to Chongqing, we (my brother, sister-in-law and I) had included a day trip to Wulong Karst…

This post is part of a series called China Odyssey 2024 For my third trip whilst in Hong Kong this year I went to Chongqing for 5 days with my…

This post is part of a series called China Odyssey 2024 This is the second part of our 144-hour visa-free trip to Guangdong province in China.  We flew from Hong Kong…

This post is part of a series called China Odyssey 2024 To avail my partner (a UK passport holder) of the 144-hour visa-free provision to visit China, I devised an…