Aug 6, 2020 How my lifelong investment in travel is paying dividends now Experience is anything but fleeting. And thank God for that.
Apr 16, 2020 A Category Three Christmas It's not letting up, I thought. The wind screamed and wailed, bending the thin walls of our beachfront cabin with every gust stronger tha...
Jan 19, 2020 The Black Nazarene – how a black Jesus effigy from Mexico became a symbol of hope and healing The Black Nazarene is the single most highly revered religious icon in the whole of the Philippines - and for such a fervently Catholic n...
Dec 9, 2019 Cycling the coast of Lamma Island - Hong Kong's rural neighbour Lamma Island is a glimpse into what Hong Kong might have been before it made it big and left its rural beginnings behind.
Oct 3, 2019 The Chicken Church of Java Among the many things you're unlikely to encounter in everyday life, a church built in the shape of a giant chicken is probably one of th...
Aug 13, 2019 MANILA. Limtuaco Distillery - where whisky is born from an erotic dream Deep in the tourist mecca of Intramuros, stands the weather beaten 'wouldn't look out of place in a David Lynch film' Limtuaco Distillery...
Aug 12, 2019 Why serendipitous travel is becoming a thing of the past - and why that's a bad thing How often do we find ourselves somewhere we know almost nothing about, with no room booked and no-one to meet us and very little knowledg...
Jul 31, 2019 PHILIPPINES. Camiguin Island - Volcanoes, jungle and sunken graves Flying into Camiguin feels a lot like flying into Jurassic Park - if Jurassic Park were real with rumbling volcanoes, a sunken city and f...
Jul 15, 2019 PHILIPPINES. Fantasy World, when theme parks go wrong An abandoned theme park in the Philippines complete with Bavarian castles, broken windows on rooms never entered and ghostly rollercoasters.
Jul 15, 2019 SOLO FEMALE TRAVEL. Taking that first trip (even when everyone puts the fear of God into you) After travelling solo on and off for the last 20 years, I've recently thought back to the moment I realised being a woman meant, for othe...
