Polish soups are amazing. I lived in Poland for a couple of years and I had to adjust to sweet lunches from time to time and eating the main meal much earlier in the day. But these meals came first […]
It’s January near the Sacromonte Caves Museum in Granada, Spain. The air is as warm as a summer’s day back home in the UK, without the humidity. We navigate the narrow paths around the hill, the Albaicín behind us, the […]
There are a lot of weird Chinese foods. I’ve heard of people eating scorpions, snakes and spiders in China. Truth be told, however, when we lived there for 3 years we didn’t see so much of these stranger foods. Admittedly, […]
It would be easy to visit Granada and never see the Albaicín quarter. There’s just so much going on in the Spanish city of Granada’s city centre. Flamenco shows with melodious guitar solos and dancers clicking their heels like hoof […]
I lived with my wife in South East China for three years and through that I experienced a typhoon season three times. Two of these were mild, a lot of rain admittedly, but no worse than the worst of storms […]
It amazed me in Wuyi Shan (the Wuyi Mountains) — the No. 1 must see of China’s Fujian province — how many Chinese travellers we met from Shanghai, 1000 or so kilometres away. They had come, they told me, to […]
Tan Kah Kee’s university town, once a simple fishing village In Jimei, hometown of the famous Tan Kah Kee, you can smell the sea long before you reach it. This isn’t so much due to the salty water itself, but […]
South Shaolin Temple… Never heard of it? If you’ve not heard of the South Shaolin Temple, you may have heard of the North Shaolin Temple (Shaolin Monastery) in Henan. But few have heard of its little brother, the South Shaolin Temple […]
As the administrative capital of Fujian province, China, it’s easy to believe Fuzhou lacking in character. We’d been to this city numerous times. But our experiences had been of hospital blocks and Fuzhou main station. Neither are the prettiest of […]
10 years ago, I visited Tanzania and twice I almost died. Perhaps I’m being melodramatic. But things might not have gone so well if I wasn’t in the hands of good, caring people. This, in truth, wasn’t anyone’s fault but […]