Category Archive: Travel

Marvellous Melbourne

Marvellous Melbourne

Magically warm week, without a cloud in the perfect blue sky. We mixed-up fantastic food, fashion, friends and family, and unearthed some hidden gems. I ran …

 

The Oriental: World’s Best Luxury Hotel?

The Oriental: World’s Best Luxury Hotel?

So how does he do it? The River Wing of Bangkok’s grandest old lady The Mandarin Oriental is 15 stories high, and boasts 150 sumptuously …

 

Sawatdee Khrab from Bangkok!

Sawatdee Khrab from Bangkok!

Bangkok is brilliant. Thais are such wonderfully warm, gentle and hospitable people, it’s almost impossible not to have a fabulous time in the Kingdom. We …

 

The Atlanta Hotel, Bangkok

The Atlanta Hotel, Bangkok

Our favourite city hotel so far, yes, even more so than the Four Seasons and the Mandarin Oriental, is The Atlanta,a wonderfully quirky old establishment …

 

Cambodia uncovered

Cambodia uncovered

Catching-up on web stuff now we are in Bangkok with a fast pipe… After the craziness of Hong Kong and China we flew to Phnom Penh …

 

Lazy Beach, lazy by name, lazy by nature

Lazy Beach, lazy by name, lazy by nature

Lazy Beach comes highly recommended as one of the few spots in the world where you really can get away from it all, two hours …

 

Monkey business at Le Royal Hotel, Phnom Penh

Monkey business at Le Royal Hotel, Phnom Penh

You know you’re in the tropics when, as you’re minding your business in your room, a shadow in the mirror slips through the balcony door. …

 

Behind The Great Firewall

Behind The Great Firewall

My favourite stop so far: Hong Kong is the gateway to the greatest story of our times, and much freer than Beijing or Shanghai, exciting …

 

Splendid China theme park, Shenzhen

Splendid China theme park, Shenzhen

From the Himalayas to the South China Sea and the Yangtze to inner Mongolia, via Beijing and Shanghai, covering 9,326,410 square kilometres of this vast, …

 

Ayubowan! Sri Lanka update

Ayubowan! Sri Lanka update

Amazing antiques in 400-year-old Galle Fort, beautiful beaches at Unawatuna, Mirissa and Tangalla, whale watching, leopard and elephant spotting, tasty rice and curry, buddas and …