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…

When planning the trip to Chongqing, we (my brother, sister-in-law and I) had included a day trip to Wulong Karst National Geology Park. It’s about 200 km from central Chongqing to…

For my third trip whilst in Hong Kong this year I went to Chongqing for 5 days with my brother and sister-in-law, including a day set aside for a trip…

This is the second part of our 144-hour visa-free trip to Guangdong province in China.  We flew from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, took the high speed train to Shenzhen and would…

To avail my partner (a UK passport holder) of the 144-hour visa-free provision to visit China, I devised an itinerary which entailed flying from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, taking the…

There’s a certain mystique about Bali that behoves a compulsive traveller like me to explore! I hadn’t done it earlier because there’s no direct flight from London to Bali and…