If you have been to Britain before and therefore seen all the biggie London sightseeing options - you know,  The Tower, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Tower Bridge, St Pauls etc. etc. - or if you just enjoy something a little different in your sightseeing diet, here's a collection of lesser known but … [Read more...]

The guys at the travel blog Hand Luggage Only, Yaya and Lloyd, have put together a collection of 12 of the best day trips in England, like Durdle Door in Dorset on the "Jurassic Coast" (pictured). I couldn't have selected them or written it better myself, he said . . . . modestly, of course. … [Read more...]

Right now I am using my locked-down time to finish writing an eBook called Great British Road Trips. But I am beginning to wonder if it's a waste of time. Will anyone be travelling soon? One thing is for sure, when we emerge from this crazy pandemic-panicked world the travel industry will … [Read more...]

Who likes being "processed" at the airport before departure? Thought so. No-one! Oh, Ok - that kid down the back making his first flight. For the rest of us it's a necessary evil. The rush to get ready. The scramble to get to the airport. Check-in procedures. Security. Don't even talk about … [Read more...]

You’re on an Australian road trip. You’ve got the sunshine beating down onto the dashboard and you’re heading for the ocean. Your surfboard is in the back and you’ve just a few bikinis and beers stashed into a weekend bag. But, you don’t need much, just the company of your friend in the passenger … [Read more...]

Travel plans on hold? Join the club. Dreaming of road trips to great new destinations may well be a sanity saver for those of us around the world in locked-down isolation. As recently as three weeks ago I was holding on to the (rapidly fading) hope that the Lady Driver and I would be on our … [Read more...]

So you booked your travel arrangements through an on-line aggregator, one of the many digital travel agencies. Now that you have had to cancel everything, how did that work out for you? Cheap is not always cheap, as many people are presently finding out. A lesson I learned a good while back is … [Read more...]

The Ghan. Strange name for a train, yes? More about that later. But this oddly named railway journey is one of the great rail expeditions in the world. It’s a Sunday afternoon after an excellent on-board lunch and I’m sitting back in my little cabin on The Ghan watching the lush green fields of … [Read more...]