Bangkok makes you feel everything is happening at once, and most of it involves a motorbike. Ari, Thewet and Suan Phlu: where to base yourself if you would rather gather yourself first.
You do not need unanimous approval before booking a holiday. What to say when someone who loves you asks whether travelling alone is dangerous, without arguing or pretending.
Couples take turns. Groups leave someone with the towels. Travelling alone, the bag is your problem. Here is what actually works, and what only looks like it does.
Twelve years of packing the same things, refined by experience. My rule of seven, the shorts nobody mentions, and the difference between essential, useful and simply optimistic.
There is no official answer. Mine began with a 29 pound Sunday night in Covent Garden and ended up a fortnight in Kerala. Here is how to judge the right length for yours.
After 62 countries alone, I have learnt the best hotel is rarely the grandest. It is the one that makes the trip easier. Here is exactly what I check before I book.
An agent meets you at the aircraft door, walks you past 3,000 tired travellers, and has you at the carousel in minutes. Worth the money? Honestly: only sometimes. Here is how I decide.
An account of booking a solo cruise twice and going neither time, written by a man who spent his thirties working on the ships and knew every counter-argument by heart.
A former ship photographer on the one rule that predicts where every crowd on a cruise ship will be, and the quiet spaces almost every passenger walks past.
A former ship photographer on why the photographer is standing exactly there, what happened to the prints nobody bought, and the last-day discount the veteran cruisers always knew about.
An honest guide to Talisay City on Cebu, the lechon capital I drove straight past: where to eat the roast pork, the coral stone church, the 1945 landing memorial and the independent cafes.
An honest, first-hand guide to Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan, Cebu: the airport city with a battle in its past, water better than its beaches, and a quieter side in old Opon.
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