Travel Destinations in the UK & Around the World
Here you can browse and read all my articles, reviews and info on places to visit in the UK & around the world.
Firsthand opinions and advice from our own travels.
Helsinki
With heat stinging my face and sweat streaming from seemingly every pore of my body, I took solace in the knowledge that apparently saunas help banish life’s stresses. You can’t [...]
Blackpool – Seaside Family Fun
If you get the chance, spend a weekend in Blackpool – you won’t be disappointed. In fact, I’d modify that statement by saying that you must make time to visit this north-western [...]
Cape Verde
A collective gasp greeted the shoal of brightly-coloured fish gliding into view. Peering through the glass-bottomed boat, the translucent emerald green water afforded a fascinating glimpse into the mysterious underwater [...]
Denmark: Southern Jutland & Legoland
I don’t know who was screaming most – me or the kids – as we endured twists and turns, a hair-raising drop and endless stomach-turning moments on X-treme Racers, just [...]
Kefalonia
Spotting throngs of excited tourists jostling for position at the quayside, we half-expected to see an A-list celebrity pulling up in their million-pound yacht. But the cameras were primed to [...]
Lanzarote
“The volcano’s erupting!” screamed a little boy beside me as a towering plume of steam shot out of the earth. As the spectacle subsided in the heart of Lanzarote’s Timanfaya [...]
Malta
If you’ve ever wondered what happened to Britain’s fleet of 1960s buses, visit Malta where myriad Bedfords and Leylands ply their trade on the island’s bumpy roads. The garishly-painted [...]
Montenegro
We’d only just arrived in Montenegro and here we were sitting in a garishly-coloured motorboat heading for Hawaii! As Jovan, a rosy-faced sailor, steered his pride and joy across [...]
Porto Santo
Lying submerged up to your neck in a tub of hot sand seems a bizarre way to start a holiday on the sunny isle of Porto Santo, but as sweat [...]