Lizz and Andi 
Our February–March 2026 Sri Lanka journey, Part One: the airport area, three nights in Kandy, Glenloch’s tea hills and three nights in Nuwara Eliya. The coast follows in …
2025 didn’t unfold like a classic “travel year.” It was a year of packed suitcases, family responsibility, and long-haul miles, where joy and worry often sat side by …
This is an update from that stage of our family journey; the plans below describe what we were arranging at the time. We had been quiet here because …
Mühlhausen gave us one of those satisfying days when a place turns out to hold far more interest than we expected. I had been there as a child, …
During our extended stay in Germany, Lizz and I returned to Würzburg for another day out. The train journey took us around two hours from where we were …
Lizz and I caught a regional train at 7 am for a day in Bamberg. Our journey from Thuringia took about an hour on that occasion—a manageable start …
I love tropical places, but mountains have always had a place in my travel daydreams too. Nepal stayed on the wish list for decades. In the meantime, Munich …
Our last day in Saigon came with the usual combination: wanting one more look around, needing to pack and wondering how we had used quite so many clean …
Our first two full days in Saigon had very different moods. One was mostly rain and shopping; the other gave us sunshine and time for the city’s familiar …
Our last full day in Phnom Penh began with the Royal Palace firmly on the programme. We had kept putting it off, confident there would be time later. …