Akila from The Road Forks has asked me to contribute my three best kept travel secrets, a request started by Katie of Tripbase which has spread around the travel website scene faster than you can say cooee.
With globalisation, mass media in all its forms and more people spreading their wings than ever before, I don’t [...]

13077.
That’s the final count of photographs taken on a five week long frenetic trip, spanning Dubai, London, several towns in Sicily and the Veneto region of Italy and culminating in eight days in Paris. They sit in the photo editing software waiting to be tagged, categorised and filed into their respective folders.
Alongside them and running [...]

Before I set out of a five week long trip, I gave myself a task of providing updates of the holiday through Twitter. Not being a compulsive user, I had reservations whether I could accomplish it so I added another element to the challenge. I told family and friends that the only way to stay [...]

The suitcases are zipped. The camera gear is packed. Tickets and passports are in hand.
For the next few weeks, we will be crossing time zones, flashing passports through several borders and eating our way round a few cities.
Gourmantic will continue to be updated during our absence and there will be one special post which [...]

An empty ticket holder from the Tokyo Metro sits next to the laptop. Alongside it, The andré label from the leather handbag I purchased in Paris keeps it company. The brochure I picked up on the London Eye reminds me of what to do on my next visit. The black spiral notebook that accompanied [...]