Mar 22
During our first few months in Vietnam, we rented an apartment in Hanoi that, well, didn’t go so well. In short, it was simultaneously the best and worst of locations in the city, and you can read about that in a piece I did for The Independent. One of the projects that kept us in …
Dec 10
We shared many delicious alfresco meals around that table above at a Bali villa rental a couple of years ago. My mother visited us from Australia for a week and our villa cook joined us for a meal on our final day. It was all good fun. Terence enjoyed reading a book from the day …
Nov 19
Following our recent post Tips to Renting Holiday Apartments – A Checklist a reader asked for tips on how to avoid holiday rental scams and getting ripped off when booking self-catering accommodation, such as how we handle money, how to make sure places are reputable, and whether there are ways to vet holiday rentals. We did …
Nov 07
I’ve lost count of the number of self-catering properties we’ve settled into, from holiday houses and villas to serviced apartments and apart-hotels, from staying in nothing but holiday rentals in 2010 to last month testing out short-term apartments in Phnom Penh, and it’s those recent experiences that have prompted this post on tips to renting …
Oct 06
Where to stay in Sydney? Well, just like Melbourne, Sydney has plenty of choices when it comes to somewhere to check in – boutique places, flashy five stars, backpacker hostels, and, of course, apartment rentals. Just as we did in Melbourne, we also got to try a huge range of accommodation over a couple of …
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