This may sound crazy but... don't take a phone or laptop

Whenever I take a trip of any serious length I don't take a mobile phone or laptop with me. I just feel they are unnecessary. To elaborate... for one thing I love reading so getting through a couple...

My favorite day trips from Madrid

Let’s face it, Madrid is wonderful. You can spend a lifetime in Spain’s capital city and still discover something new almost every day. But sometimes a day out of the hectic metropolis is...

El Mirador, the Lost Mayan City in the Guatemalan jungle

There are countless well-known tourist attractions in the world – easy to reach and with good transport connections. And then – there is something for adventure people of Indiana Jones kind...

Visiting Macedonia, a lesser-known European destination

One of the most interesting destination that I have the chance to visit and to discover in last years is Macedonia. One of the countries of Former Yugoslavia. There is no sea, it is small, but it...

London: Swap This for That

London can be a hugely scary place. A massive (and I mean enormous) sprawling city in the south east of little ole England. One of the busiest cities in the world, with literally 1000’s of things...

Eastern Nepal - an unexplored gem

So you have been in Nepal for a good few weeks now. You have visited Kathmandu and the UNESCO sites of Patan and Bhaktapur. You have been to the lakeside city of Pokhara, and from there proceeded to...