When asked why they wear such bright colours the women of the Uros Islands on Lake Titicaca replied, "We are the flowers of the island, the men are the...
They say when you first arrive at a new destination that sits at a high altitude - anything over about 2500 metres - you should rest immediately, lay down...
I'm lying in a cocoon of sleeping bags and blankets staring at the single bare light globe outside our room. I have no idea what the time is, but...
Our fourth morning in the Masai Mara dawned bright and very early when we were woken by the dulcet tones of the Kenny Rogers singing "You don't have to...
When we first started telling people we were heading to Peru the most common question we got was 'Why?". Even people who had hears of Machu Picchu...
We finally made it to Myanmar. After months of planning and talking about our girls' holiday, here we are. What a different holiday this will be - a girls'...
I'm caught, stuck. I know I should be ordering a salad roll, something healthy for lunch, but the cakes here look so good. Florentines, cream-filled buns...
We've all seen those images of Tuscany - you know the ones. Emerald green mountains, mist rolling across vineyards and medieval walled cities...
Our trip to Konstance in Germany was unexpected. We had arrived the day before at my cousin, Jon's place in Switzerland and he was speaking at a conference in...
We finally made it to the very reason we had decided to come to this part of the world - Chamonix. It's fair to say we were not disappointed...
