Category: Travel
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An Insider’s Guide To Munich, Germany
Kicking off the first of what I hope will be many contributions to my new ‘Home Towns’ project, guest-poster Alison Rolle reveals there’s more to Bavaria than beer (but you’ll still find lots of it!)
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Why I’m proud to call Eastbourne my home
I do intend to write a ‘proper’ visitor’s guide to Eastbourne at some point but for now here’s a personal piece about why I’m proud to call Eastbourne my home
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Harrods: The museum of expensive things
[ wrote this post in December 2014 after experiencing Harrods at peak Christmas shopping time.] I went to Harrods yesterday. I hate shopping, but no one goes to Harrods to shop, do they? They go there to point, gasp and and do little high pitched laughs at the price tags.
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Beauty
Croatian people are beautiful. All of them, gods and goddesses. As soon as I stepped off the airport shuttle bus into Dubrovnik, it was like entering a good-looking convention. All the women were slim, tanned, dressed impeccably and wearing glamorous-person sunglasses. The men were tall, dark and chiselled, like living Adonises.
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Uncomfortably lost in the wrong bit of Dubrovnik
Travel writers enthuse about ‘getting lost’ in romantic cities. Be frivolous, rip up your map, leave your smartphone at home, don’t even bother asking for directions, they say. Trust your inner explorer, because by following your instinctual compass you’ll discover INCREDIBLE things about the world, its’ people and most of all…yourself. Today I learned that’s […]
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Going solo
In recent weeks I’ve had a lot to think about. Where do baby pigeons live? I’ve never seen one. How come the people on Masterchef didn’t pursue a career in cooking in the first place if they’re so good at it? And what’s going to happen to society when the selfie generation grows up and starts to make […]
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