How I Learnt to Scuba Dive in Malta and Became a PADI Open Water Scuba Diver (aka certified mermaid!)
One of the perks of writing a travel blog is the myriad of travel competitions open to us bloggers. I’ve has my fair bit of luck […]
Postcard of the Week: NYC in Collage
This is now my third Postcard of the Week from New York City, but hey, I liked the design of this postcard and thought I’d have a go at something […]
How to Spend a Long Weekend in Istanbul
Istanbul seems to be the city of the moment. Everywhere I turn friends are planning weekends to Istanbul and it’s one of the places everyone is […]
Remembrance Day and the Poppies at the Tower of London
Today, the 11th November, is Remembrance Day and while we pay our respects every year, this year is particularly important as it’s the centenary of the […]
Postcard of the Week: The Jurassic Coast
The Jurassic Coast sounds dramatic. It sounds intriguing. It sounds fictional, as if a local mayor with a rather overactive imagination is trying to jazz up his borough’s name to […]
Postcard of the Week: Malta
A couple of weeks ago I visited Malta for the first time. Malta is a small nation of just 423,000 inhabitants in an enviable position south […]
Space Travel, Drug Cartels, a North Korean escapee, the Northern Ireland Peace Process, Inspiration and more at One Young World 2014 in Dublin
Travel changes the way you perceive the world. It adds a new lens and causes you to question things you thought you knew about the world. […]
Postcard of the Week: Ireland
The 2014 summit of One Young World was held in Dublin a few weeks ago (read my pre-OYW blog post here). It was actually my […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 