Travel stories

“Only First-Class!” Well darn, that wasn’t in the script – there were no other berths on the train from Poltava to Odesa. …

Could the Bunya Mountains be the one place to turn your preconceptions of human nature on its head? *** I recently finished …

The man in the Taganrog Park spun around and said something at us. The only word I made out was ‘anglesky’  (‘English’)- …

You’ll see the chick with red and green silk bloomers at Tanais… The River Don is one of Europe’s big ones. Even …

Travelling in Russia last year I got a chance to see some of it’s famous prehistoric ‘Porthole Dolmens’.  Now there is a …

I loved my Singapore Airlines ‘Elite Gold’ card. Suddenly, International airports transitioned from being places where food and drink were wildly overpriced, …

Women, so I’ve read (and seem to observe), are significantly more likely to take ‘selfies’ than men. It doesn’t seem to matter …

In five years or so  in and out of Mongolia, I’ve criss-crossed thousands of kilometres by 4WD Landcruiser. But I’ve only taken …

The most famous ‘little log cabin in the woods’ is probably the one in which Abraham Lincoln grew up in Kentucky. It …

Early on a cool Sunday morning I sipped my latte outside Relishes Cafe, Wanaka, and thought the immediate view could be better. …