Category: Stories
Meeting The Condors Of Colca Canyon, Peru
How far would you travel to see something special?
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The Poor Man’s Galapagos Islands, Peru
Not visiting the Galapagos Islands while I was in Ecuador is my biggest travel regret. My strict budget didn’t allow me the luxury.
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Celebrating 500 Years At Hampton Court Palace
There are few places that evoke the past better than Hampton Court Palace.
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Guardians Of A Mountain Kingdom: A Drive Through Montenegro
From across the dark water, it looked like fairy lights had been flung against the jagged mountain slopes. Forming arcs and triangles, occasionally broken by backlit towers, Kotor’s twinkles put on quite the show. “You see…” Slavko my guide explained, “The lights form the shape of an old man. He guards this city”.
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Walks Through Wildflowers: Exploring Slovenia’s North West
Two hours from the queues at Stansted Airport, I was transported to a world of snowy peaks and bubbling springs.
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Ljubljana Is For Love: 24 hours In Slovenia’s Capital
I became inexplicably teary as I listened to the accordion’s brassy tones. I was perched underneath a bronze statue of Preseren; Slovenia’s most beloved poet. From across the main square, his ‘Juliet’ gazed back at us. As a mauve dusk settled over Ljubljana I realised that I was rapidly falling in love…and I don’t even like the accordion.
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The Art Of Anatomy At London’s Hunterian Museum
Did you know that barnacles have stomachs? It had never crossed my mind. Neither had I formed opinions on the size of salmon’s ovaries or the intricate structure of a whale’s bladder.
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The End Of An Era At London’s Natural History Museum
The first time I entered Hintze Hall I felt very small. I was very small, probably no more than eight years old.
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The Curious Traveller 