Greetings from Kolkata. The city experiences a mild winter compared to the north of India. Day time temperatures are mild. 20 deg. C at the moment. The whole city is bathed in this beautiful mellow light. It is a wonderful time to be visiting this part of the world. Kolkata is a city with which…
Greetings friends from a very rainy grey Paris. Miserable and grey where you are too? Ah well. It is that time of the year when with the fading daylight, we all seem to sink into some form of mellow hibernation. I’ve been far from hibernating. Not yet. Been busy catching up with work at a…
Luxury. A word that for most of us has a positive connotation with the expenditure of money. It is not a word you traditionally associate with a website about budget travel. Well, prepare to be surprised! Following on from the launch of my new guide to Luxury Hostels of Europe and given that many of us…
Summer is almost at an end. Hope it has been a good summer so far for you. Mine has been quite epic. Exhausting too! Fun nevertheless. I visited over 35 cities and we filmed some new Luxury Hostels that you will discover in my new guide to Luxury Hostels of Europe which will be published…
There are no pictures left from my last trip to Tampere. Except one of 2 pictures. This is one of them. As you can see, in July 2012 I had just discovered the joy of the HDR filter on my iPhone. …
What to do for free in London I love London. It is a city that was once home to me almost 20 years ago when I came to here work in the city for a poorly paid summer internship. I didn’t have much money at the time so it was a pretty rough time. However,…
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train.” Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel No one takes the train in Croatia, we were told I had three options to go to Zagreb. Take the plane. Get up at the god unearthly hour…
“If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now mostly been transferred to the Louvre and the Jeu de Paume. I went there nearly every day for…
Summer is almost upon us. It is a faint glimmer on the horizon but soon the sky will be ablaze with its warmth. This is the perfect time to plan a quick weekend getaway to a beautiful European city during the summer. This short holiday need not break the bank. It could be a prequel…
