I’m staying home this year. I’m going to sit in the garden and read all the books that have been piling up in the flat. Since most of them are travel books which I have been panting for, I will still be travelling, sort-of. Read More…
It’s a fact that the best time to score a travel bargain is to visit a place shortly after it’s been pummelled by a natural disaster, or bombed by terrorists. Ghoulish and crass, indeed, but there you go – we’re only human, and part of being human is always looking for the good deal. Read More…
Three of Nationwide Airlines’ Boeing 737s went under the hammer today and sold, for the flyaway bargain price $1.07m, to an unknown bidder. Read More…
A convoy of trucks carrying reindeer, donkeys and huskies leaving Lapland, and a woman screaming through the fence, “Santa’s dead!” Read More…

Some of the thousands of limestone karsts in Halong Bay, Vietnam PICTURE: Paul Ash
Click HERE to see a slideshow on travel in Vietnam. The photos were shot on film, the real RAW format!
I have always wanted to go to Burma. It is, I am told, fantastically beautiful with forest-carpeted mountains, fat and lazy rivers like the Irrawaddy, and a friendly populace who are only too happy to welcome you.
The flip side is the military junta which rules the country with a steel fist. Read More…