Way back in 2007 I went on an amazing walking holiday in the foothills of the Himalayas with what was then a very new eco-tourist group called Village Ways. The project had been started to provide work for the the people of the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary: they built guest houses …
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Sleeping under the stars at Wadi Rum
When first I spooled through Trip Advisor looking for interesting places to stay in Petra I noticed some ‘Bedouin camps’ in ‘Little Petra’ and mentioned these to Jolanda in my ‘booking’ email. (See here for more on Jolanda and my stay in Petra.) She suggested I wait until I …
Please do go to Jordan – it is safe – and amazing…..
‘Jordan…. You’re not going to Jordan, are you? Is it safe?’ A question that is asked all too often of prospective tourists. And a question that, along with the thousands of refugees massed on the border with Syria, is creating havoc in the Jordanian economy. In a country so …
Steaming with the mozzies in the Italian hills!!
Driving through the rolling hills of Le Marche above Ancona is truly like driving through a Renaissance painting – every hill topped with a tiny pink brick village clustered round a fifteenth century church, every hairpin bend opening up some new vista of vineyards and olive …
So, on to the delights of Liverpool….
Most of the bigger hotels in Liverpool cluster dound the dock area but because neither Cressida nor I are that keen on large modern hotels, we go and stay in the wonderful 1950s Parr Street studios – still very much a working recording studio complex which has one ‘hotel’ floor …