With this latest guest post, we are heading over to the other side of the world…the other side of the world if you are in the UK and Europe! If you are in Sydney…well, erm…then, you are still a good flight away! No matter, you are in safe hands as my old friend, former colleague, British expat and some time lookalike, Greg, takes you on a tour of…
Beyond a certain age (right about your late teens) the thought of travelling with your parents fills the average person with a sense of dread. The chance to holiday with friends on drunken adventures in Ibiza, backpacking around South East Asia or simply taking trips with a beloved understandably holds a far greater appeal than a trip with the old folks. Even though, like you, I have experienced much…
I want to get one thing straight from the start. I had avoided Japan, when the opportunity arose in the past, simply because I had perceived it to be too expensive a country to visit. Stories of sky-high accommodation costs and the need for bucket loads of cash for transport, food and activities had put me off heading to the Land of the Rising Sun. Japan’s reputation as…
Tokyo is huge! With a metropolitan population of 37 million in the Greater Tokyo Area, covering a space 40% larger than London, exploring the Japanese capital is no mean feat. Hopefully, this guide will prove useful in helping you to maximise your time in this truly unique urban jungle as you navigate the disorientating, yet utterly incredible mega city that is…東京都! When you search for Tokyo on Google…
Looking across to Gaia (the focus of the port wine industry in Porto) it’s truly odd to be standing in the heat of a Portuguese city seeing enormous rooftop hoardings with a number of quintessentially English surnames such as Taylors, Cockburn and Graham peppered across the length of the river bank. Though, I’m not a big fan of encountering my fellow countryman [sic] abroad, on this occasion in…