In Mexico City’s Miguel Hidalgo district, you can eat through an entire history of Mexican cuisine without repeating a dish twice. From the produce vendors at Mercado San Miguel Chapultepec who have been working the…
The Wall That Hits Around 4 PM There is a specific kind of tiredness that finds you mid-afternoon in a city you are visiting for the first time. You have done the Changing of the…
The Southern Way is the name Tourism New Zealand has given to the network of routes linking the south of the South Island into one explorable loop. From Oamaru and Dunedin on the east coast,…
Stepping into a kendo dojo in Tokyo means leaving the city behind and entering a space where centuries of practice still shape daily training. As someone who has practiced kendo for over 20 years, I’ve…
The aircraft descends over an endless sea of emerald rainforest, rivers threading through landscapes that stretch beyond the horizon. Visitors arriving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo tend to go quiet the moment they…
Spend long enough in a good hotel and you start to notice what’s missing. You can’t wander into a kitchen at midnight for a glass of wine without putting on shoes. Dinner is whenever the…
With Summer now officially underway (it starts on 1st June each year according to the Met Office), there’s no better time to explore the UK‘s wonderful array of gardens open to the public. Regular readers…
The couple had chosen Mykonos because they had been there the previous summer and fallen in love with a particular view from a particular terrace on the south of the island. They wanted their wedding…
Barcelona rewards slow movement. On a bike, the city opens up differently than it does on foot or through a taxi window — you catch the light on the Modernista facades, feel the gradient of…
This August, something remarkable is going to happen over the Mediterranean. On the evening of 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Spain and the western Med, turning a warm summer evening…