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I've written about travellers and tourists but there is a third set of people who make their way to destinations away from their day to day life. They have a week or two to opt out of their normal routine and buy into a different reality. They generally travel as...

When in travel mode and looking for accommodation, one of the main criteria is a balcony or a terrace. Over the years we have experienced spectacular views in Ikaria, Samos, San Lazzaro.....Balconies have evoked inspiration and reflection such as those in Athens and...

Today a Facebook post featured a photo of the Globe Hotel, Jamestown, circa 1905. My grandfather, John Haren, was its licensee in the late 1920s. The photo shows a stately pub on a wide street with a few men and a couple of dogs. It depicts a glimpse of country South...

QR 915 is transporting its human payload to Qatar. Curiously for all of this country’s internal idiosyncrasies Doha is a hub from which the world can be explored. Rome, Paris, Istanbul, Tbilisi, Tehran, Baghdad are all reachable from this tiny launch pad of a country....

By now it is apparent to the reader that we are travellers rather than tourists. It's a subtle distinction and may sound a little elitist. We love being off the beaten track as much as possible, enjoying the local culture and all that it offers. We rarely, if ever,...

We love to catch the local transport and walk the villages and cities.  We love trains, having travelled Europe and South East Asia experiencing the various coach classes with contrasting degrees of comfort or discomfort.  In the 1980s a hard copy of the...