If you visit a city well-known for making hardened-steel knives and swords make sure you don’t get stopped carrying a reproduction antique sidearm. Like most people, we do like to buy holiday souvenirs. The odd oil painting or restored cherub – and it was this which led us into a trap in Spain. The beautiful…
A thousand sunsets. A thousand memories. A thousand heartbeats. Colours of red, blue, and gold streak the sky as the sun dips below the horizon…this is Santorini. Poets have written about it, and artists have tried to capture its beauty, but nothing quite describes the magic of this tiny Greek island, rich in history and…
Family visits are not often seen as travel opportunities, even when they live more than an hour’s drive away. ‘You’re just visiting the parents’. Even if they haven’t stayed in the family home and live somewhere completely new, you still see it as ‘Mum and Dad’s place’. Shropshire has never been my home. Sure, it…
It’s not really in my nature to go somewhere twice…but there is one place I’ve gone out of my way to visit more than once…Venice. Now in my thirties, I’ve been here three times. As a teenager, in my twenties, and now, recently married, excited to share the most beautiful city in the world, with…
A honeymoon at Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu in the Maldives: a seaplane arrival, private plunge-pool villa and barefoot luxury on a tiny Indian Ocean island.