“I was discovering a different side to Italy, the path distinctly less travelled…and the feeling of wonder when one comes across something not seen in books or media, as if stumbling across it for the first time.”
“Renting an apartment to coincide with the Bath Christmas Market seemed the perfect way to experience a festive weekend in the city…”
“He told me I would feel like this, he told me it would change me. I am sitting, drinking sloe gin with a seasoned traveller, a wit, a sage of sorts. Let us for sake of discretion call him The Minister.”
“What could bring such A-listers from the likes of manicured Malibu beaches to East Sussex’s humble Camber Sands?” The demur Shana Ting Lipton discovers the boorish side of the Sussex coast…
“Where on earth could you be expected to start when trying to write about a city like Florence? Florence is not a place that has a beginning, middle and an end, it is a complex, beautiful, multifarious metropolis.”
“We were setting off on that time-honoured jaunt round the Mediterranean that only a cruise can provide in true splendour and comfort…” Larman and his ‘newly-affianced one’ embrace the comforts of ocean travel…
“I awake to a hazy city scene blanketed in smog, like a particularly foggy Lowry painting, a subdued contrast to the flashing brilliance of the animated adverts of the night before…” Like a modern day Alice, Gabrielle arrives in Wonderland…
“If ever there was a day to be out in the British countryside, it is this day. Early-August and baking – the hottest day of the year.” Noah reminisces on a trip to the Cotswolds…
“I have arrived in the most extraordinary place. As I write I am sat in a wooden treetop bar, straining against candlelight, the distant hills of Burma sporadically illuminated by streaks of lightning.” In Part 2 of his epic adventure, Larry enters the wilds of northern Thailand…
“My father spent much time in Geneva…and suggested that I spend some time there in the calm and tranquil surroundings of classically approved beauty. But what did I care for such things?” Lavinia Blundell-White savours a Swiss idyll…
“While traditionally associated with red trouser-wearing old men, Cognac has undergone a welcome transformation.” Lucy Shaw finds gold in a glass off the coast of France…
“A warm orange sun burned through the haze that diffused the Doi Suthep mountains and, instinctively, I heard the theme to ‘Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence’ in my head – until I realised it was coming from the stereo in the bar behind me.” Larry begins an odyssey across Thailand…