Passport control at Las Vegas’s McCarran Airport, and I’m braced for a grilling from a immigration officer trained to make innocent holidaymakers feel like KGB spies infiltrating Cold War West Berlin. But a quick glance into this particular border guard’s… Read More ›
The Caribbean has many seductive selling points to tempt British tourists. There’s the laid-back beach life, tin-roofed rum shacks, tropical fruits to tingle the taste buds and the most exotic oceans this side of the equator. Add local smiles as… Read More ›
Grappling with the complexities of crossing the road in a city of one thousand temples and ten million scooters demands the wisdom and patience of the Buddha himself. Two attributes I clearly lack. Consequently, my introduction to this mesmerising East… Read More ›
Maybe it was just the wine talking, but after merrily trekking across South Africa’s Western Cape, sniffing, swirling and sipping a cellar’s worth of vintage reds and classic whites, I was confident my well-oiled taste buds were up to the… Read More ›
There is something seriously dodgy about Disneyland Paris’s new hotel. In fact, you could say it’s a virtual deathtrap. Outside, the hotel’s sign hangs precariously between the twisted metal frames of once lavish balconies. The grounds are choked with weeds,… Read More ›
My beloved has longed to see Florence since childhood. To walk its cobblestone paths and piazzas, sip espresso in its elegant cafes and gaze upon its Roman palaces. All the chatter before our Mediterranean cruise was about the rare beauty of Italy’s renaissance city, built by Julius Caesar himself and… Read More ›
A guy walks into a bar, lays eyes on the woman of his dreams, is paralysed by an overwhelming fear of rejection, leaves without speaking to her, and spends the rest of his life wondering what could have been. Sound… Read More ›
‘THANK you AMERICA for SAVING us!’ proclaimed the white painted line of graffiti, daubed in a mixture of capital and lowercase letters, on a school wall in the town of Tempe. The three-foot-high thank you note on the island of… Read More ›
Ever felt the urge to wrap your arms around a total stranger? Motorbiker Ronnie certainly cut a fine figure in his full leathers and shades, but my compulsion give him a cuddle had more to do with survival than a… Read More ›
If countries ever replace celebrities as the subject of historical TV show Who Do You Think You Are?, the BBC would be advised to dedicate an entire series to Slovenia. Sandwiched between Italy and Croatia, this sapling state is one… Read More ›
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