Venice must be the world’s most romantic city. It’s the first place that always comes to mind when I’m asked to recommend destinations for couples keen on rekindling a romance or looking for ideas for luxury honeymoon hotels or special anniversary holidays. I was recently asked how I would craft a package of Grantourismo-style holidays focused on … Read more about The Romance of Venice
Which hotels do travel writers check into when they go on holidays? That’s what Mark Hudson, a writer himself for The Sunday Times, among other publications, was keen to know, so he asked 50 of them (including myself) and published their recommendations, ‘Where travel writers pay to stay’, on his site 101 Holidays. I’ve been … Read more about Where travel writers stay when they go on holidays
Melbourne, Singapore, Dubai, Venice… we’ve been doing some intensive globe-trekking these last weeks. It’s this kind of constant travel that causes us to wince when people say they envy our lifestyle – while it might be fine if you’re on holidays, it can be hell when you’re on a gruelling work schedule. First it was … Read more about On the road again… Melbourne, Singapore, Dubai, Venice, and Mallorca
Around five years ago the glossy travel mags started talking up Croatia as the next hot destination and travel journos were writing about the country as if it had only just been discovered. The Croatian National Tourism Board saturated the global media with their ‘Mediterranean As It Once Was’ campaign and everyone bought it. And … Read more about One traveller’s ‘latest discovery’ is another’s old favorite