​On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, St. Patrick's Day celebrations, in March, go beyond the "ordinary" custom of wearing the colour green and drinking beer at the neighbourhood pub. With the disti...

Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a Southeast Asian nation of more than 100 ethnic groups, bordering India, Bangladesh, China, Laos and Thailand. Yangon (formerly Rangoon), the country's largest city, is ho...

Our first experience of home swap holidays  My best friend's son lives in Beijing, so when last November an ad popped up on my screen proclaiming cheap Air France flights to the Chinese capital, ...

A post-Brexit vote wine tasting tour needn't involve foreign travel ​ Think of touring vineyards and most people will conjure up visions of globally known signature destinations such as the Silverado...

As the recent BBC TV series demonstrated in glorious HD, travellers go to New Zealand for its spectacular and hugely varying scenery. Just as we did. However, the consistently high standard of meals w...

​ If you know where to look, you can find bars tucked away in Sydney's Central Business District (CBD) that the typical tourist are very unlikely to happen upon Seek and ye shall find: You may wonder ...

Walking down the Riva Degli Schiavoni fromPiazza San Marco, we recognize it immediately: the pink stucco facade with marble sills standing flat against the promenade, looking out to the beautiful blue...

Coming home to the Gritti Palace. A restful and efficient flight on Swiss Airlines in Boston brings us to an early afternoon arrival at the Venice airport where a man awaits us holding aloft a sign: "...

Playing with monkeys in Honduras is a highlight excursion during a Western Caribbean cruise on the Norwegian Getaway. As the saying goes, he's a cheeky monkey. Poncha, a white-faced Capuchin, is flitt...

As I arrived at JW Marriott Venice by private boat charter (the only way to travel if you ask me), I thought to myself 'This is the life.' Sadly, my daily commute normally consists of being squashed o...

Once an ancient port city on the Silk Road, today, Macau remains a vibrant and prosperous cosmopolitan city bursting with influences from the Eastern and Western communities that have made it their ho...

We've all heard about places in the world which have been victims of their own success - over development, pollution and pickpockets are just some of the things that seem to come hand in hand with pop...