Furoshiki Shoes: feet ahead – product review
This is a product just made for me! Connections with Japan are writ large throughout this story but it has a happy ending. The shoes...
Scrubba Wash Bag – product review
Make next year’s travel easier and greener with the Scrubba wash bag. Change travel for the better – give your intrepid companion, camping buddy or...
Cabin Max Stockholm – World’s Lightest Trolley Bag – product review
These days we find ourselves with additional charges when we travel. There are charges for paying by card, for food, for drink and there were...
111 Gardens in London That You Shouldn’t Miss – guidebook review
This is the must-have book of the year for anyone interested in gardens in London. That doesn’t have to be an interest in the activity...
The Bells, The Bells of Jura
When you wake in your hotel room in the beautiful green mountains of the Jura, in Eastern France, you may hear, for the first time,...
The Trtl Pillow – In-flight snuggle – product review
The Trtl Pillow (pronounced ‘turtle’) has won me over. I have the ‘pleasure’ of flying long-haul very often and I am expected to hit the...
38L Litehaul Backpack from Kathmandu – product review
Luggage and backpacks are big business these days. We are confronted with increasingly rigid weight and size restrictions for both carry-on and hold bags. Airlines...
Maribor Slovenia – wines, gastronomy, bikes and hikes – travel review
Slovenia is a small country in Central Europe. Small it might be but it has natural beauty, with mountains (Slovenia’s highest mountain, the three-peaked Triglav,...
Japanese Curry – traditionally cubed – recipe
We might think that Japanese curry is a new invention. Perhaps Japanese tourists discovered the recipe for curry on recent trips to the Subcontinent. But,...
Pocket-Pro® – Not just your Pocket Toothbrush – product review
For the first time in my life as a travel writer I was invited to review a toothbrush! Well, it’s true one has to brush...
Rennes – second capital of food (or is it third?) – travel review
Rennes Market, in the Place des Lices, is there every Saturday, and is considered to be the second- or third-largest in France, depending on whom...
Sake Cups … or perhaps a glass – travel review
Or natural wood, lacquered wood, glass or even plastic… For those of us who love the delicious complexity of sake, the vessel from which we...
Burgundy – Chardonnay, Charolais and Cloisters – travel review
Archaeological evidence suggests that viticulture in Burgundy started as early as 200 AD, and later the monks and monasteries were to have an important influence...
Bodum Vacuum Travel Mug – product review
A travel mug has become part of the city lifestyle. We sit on sweltering buses and trains in the heat of summer and sip water....
Porto – Harry Potter was born here – travel review
Yes, it’s true, dear reader! The boy with the lightning scar was conceived and born in Porto. This city is also known as Oporto and...
Korea – Lonely Planet – review
I know for sure that not many of you, my dear readers, have visited Korea. It’s a land less explored by tourists than its near...
Casemade – traditional quality for contemporary technology – product review
Yes, there are a lot of phone cases out there. One can find them in shops, malls, markets and stalls across the land. I hear...
Portugal – A world of flavours – travel review
It’s true that many British tourists are regulars on the beaches of the Algarve and they will say they love the country. Yes, they enjoy...
Sake – a Japanese History – travel review
We in the West are becoming more familiar with Sake. There are now many more Japanese restaurants in our cities and all of them will...
Introducing Langkawi, Malaysia – travel review
Langkawi, or to give its official title, Langkawi the Jewel of Kedah – in Malay Langkawi Permata Kedah – is indeed a tropical paradise. Yes,...