I rediscover Bengali cuisine, and beyond, in Kolkata where a timeless passion for embracing the new has led to the evolution of a food scene unlike anywhere else. Continue reading Is this city India’s true food capital?
From sleeping in an ice room, to breakfasting with giraffes and the ultimate private island experience, these quirky accommodations make for some some of the world’s most unique holiday stays. Continue reading 8 of the world’s most unique places to stay – revealed!
An unusually potent herbal aroma drifted off smouldering barks of weeping emu bush and prickly wattle burning in a flat bowl on the ground in front of us. “The smoke has a calming effect and reduces anxiety,” explained Peter Abbott, our Indigenous tour guide. “We also burn these leaves and twigs at the end of our ceremonies – the smoking is used to close the … Continue reading Discovering Australia’s heartland, the Red Centre
My diary of an afternoon in Chong-kemin Continue reading Going off-grid in Kyrgyzstan
Luxury resorts in the Maldives can get pretty formulaic – not to say that it’s a bad formula at all! – but between the picture-perfect ’50-shades-of-blue’ waters, powder white beaches, and luxurious over-water villas perched on said waters, they can all start looking the same. Which is why it’s the little things that matter. And at Coco Bodu Hithi, there are lots of little things … Continue reading This Maldives resort feels like your own private island home!
It’s here again, Northern Lights viewing season (it actually begins as early as August!), and as one of the most popular bucket-list destinations in the world, I’m sure there’s many of you plotting that trip. Now, we were fortunate enough to get to see them on an epic trip earlier this year – which involved everything from spending a night in minus 5-degrees at the … Continue reading Seven things you didn’t know about going to see the Northern Lights
Just ahead of our long weekend trip to Lebanon, whenever we mentioned our travel plans to anyone, it was met with a bewildered “Why are you going to Lebanon?” from several people. Sadly, this little Levantine nation has had much of the sheen from its heyday as the ‘Paris of the Middle East’ diminished with years of strife and unrest – or so it would … Continue reading 48 hours in Beirut
The ‘Windy City’, ‘The Second City’, and of course, affectionately, ‘Chi-town’ – Chicago is known by many names. But none of these titles can actually do justice to the irrepressible dynamism of this Midwest city; this constantly evolving city grew from a small 19th century trading town to become the busy, multi-cultural modern metropolis it is today (it earned itself the ‘second city’ moniker as … Continue reading Chicago Top 3 To-do
“We’ll meet by the little red door on the side of the church,” she said. Never mind the espionage-style appointment, the person I was meeting at my rendezvous couldn’t be less spy-like! Lisa Rankin, my guide for a Parisian food tour, is a warm, bubbly Canadian blonde who feels like a good friend within minutes of meeting, as she endeavours to share her passion for food … Continue reading On a taste trail in Paris
My initial touch-points with Cuba weren’t very pleasant. Starting with getting a visa to go there. Actually, not so much getting the visa, but getting the right information about where to get the visa from… after lots of asking around and sifting through stuff online, I put my passport into a DHL courier guy’s hands and hoped for the best. Ironically, the process was surprisingly swift … Continue reading Cuban contemplations…
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