I had heard a while ago about Montenegro but I was uninformed about the place so that when I got here the beauty of the place was a shock to me. As the bus descended the mountains of Bosnia the bus passengers all got their phones out to take photos of the coast. It’s the… Read More »
Last time I came to the part of Romania was around 30 years ago and I was impressed with Brasov and Moeciu de Sus. Moeciu is a small village in the Carpathian Mountains and I still have photos from when I was here last of me sitting in the sun on a hillside. Things have… Read More »
I was fed up of not getting paid and needed to escape Dar for cooler climes so I got a flight to next day out of the hot house to the north. I had contacted a recommended guide and he was able to sort me out with a safari with a couple of other Ukrainians.… Read More »
It was a bad idea to go across the river to Pudong on National Holiday but I had thought it would be nice to walk along the river on such a sunny day. That was my error – thinking that it would be a pleasant stroll instead of trying to move through a scrum of… Read More »
I was running out of ideas about where I could go for a holiday for a few weeks within China. I had heard a lot about Yunnan so I got myself a flight to Kunming and back and decided to make a plan once I got there. One of my main requirements from the holiday… Read More »
It has always been very easy to buy travel insurance online. The difficult bit is navigating the comparison websites. I spent hour upon hour looking at travel insurance for a two week holiday to Indonesia. I wouldn’t usually bother with travel insurance, especially when going to a cheap country, but this time it was a… Read More »
We decided to go over to Dubai for the day to see the Spice Souk, the tallest building in the world and the old city. It’s only a couple of hours from Abu Dhabi and the roads are huge. It always amazes me that human beings can built such magnificent structures as these skyscrapers. We… Read More »
It was over 200 on the air quality index as I turned my back on Shanghai this morning. A short flight later and I am taking a huge intake of breath into my pollution choked lungs. It feels good, very good. Having been warned that nobody would be able to speak English here I quickly… Read More »
Even if nobody told you it was a public holiday you’d only need to walk out of your house to know something was different. It’s hard at the best of times, to walk in a straight line down the street but this morning the crowds were dense and slow moving making progress difficult. This morning… Read More »