Sreemangal in a Day by Accident
With a kind-of-delicious-kind-of-just-sweet seven layer tea down me, I joined my new friends Shohan and Sakib who had hired a CNG (tuk tuk) for the day to see the sights […]
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Dizzying Dhaka: Making Friends in Bangladesh’s Chaotic Capital
If I could use one phrase to sum up Dhaka – Bangladesh’s crazy capital city – it would be ‘go with the flow’. Plans are all well and good, but […]
Sipping on Sum Morning Cha in Guangzhou
Of the many famous Cantonese foods, dim sum is quite possibly the most well-known around the world and, as a result, was very high on my to-eat list in Guangzhou. […]
Free Beer at Guangzhou’s Zhujiang Museum!
Throughout my time in China the large majority of the beer I’ve put away has been Tsingtao or Snow, with the occasional Dalian Beer thrown in for good measure. Craft […]
A Long Weekend in the Underwhelming Heart and Seoul of Korea
For some reason despite living in Tokyo for two years, I never took advantage of the cheap and short flights to Seoul, capital of South Korea. In fact, the closest […]
Behind Bars in Lvshun Prison
Thanks to Dalian’s proximity to Russia (in relative terms, anyway!) and its history which I won’t even claim to know anything about, there remains quite a lot of Soviet influence […]
First Impressions of Dalian
Another year, another home! Ok, that makes me sound like part of the travelling community, but you get what I mean. Avid readers of this blog (they do exist, I […]
A Day Ruined at Pompeii
Heads up: If you only have a limited amount of time in Naples, click here to read about how you can see the (in my opinion) much better Herculaneum and […]
Cause and Effect: A Day at Herculaneum and Vesuvius
When visiting Naples it goes without saying that the proximity to the ancient ruins of Pompeii make it a must-see. The town destroyed by the still-active Mount Vesuvius is something […]
Naples in a Day
It’s become something of a tradition for me recently to try and ‘do’ a city in a day when visiting. Often – such as my trips to Dusseldorf, Cologne and […]
