You love those little extras as much as I do, don’t you? You know what I mean… a refreshing welcome drink (when you arrive hot and sweaty at a hotel), chocolates on the pillow with turn-down service (just when you’re craving something sweet), an amuse bouche before dinner (when you’re feeling hungry or just keen … Read more about Sweets in Crete: loving those little extras!
The most memorable meals don’t have to be Michelin-starred dining experiences, and I like to be reminded of that every now and again when I travel. Having said that, we’ve enjoyed some long leisurely lunches in fine dining restaurants where every dish is so divine it’s inspiring, where every mouthful of food is something to … Read more about Memorable meals
Sometimes scenery we come across when we travel can be so breathtakingly beautiful that they stop us dead in our tracks and make it hard to move on. It may not even be that the particular scene is something that is always stunning, like a natural landscape, but rather at that minute the play of … Read more about Sublime travel scenes
Last month there was so much rain in Dubai (for three whole days) that the city flooded and life in the metropolis ground to a halt. Whoever could have expected such weather in an Arabian Gulf city? When we first moved to the Emirates ten years ago it had been so dry that the imans … Read more about Sleet in Crete and floods in Dubai
My last ‘filing drawer’ (a re-sealable plastic bag in the inside pocket of the Samsonite, I remind you) contains all those little bits and pieces of travel paraphernalia that are not so easily categorized. There are concert tickets stubs from shows we loved: Marisa Monte in Buenos Aires, The Strokes in Amsterdam, Death Cab for … Read more about Collecting #3: miscellaneous travel paraphernalia (or, the equivalent of the bottom drawer, the back of the cupboard, or the shoebox under the bed)