A highlight of our time back home in Australia was getting to gourmet foodie weekend Great Barrier Feast at qualia on Hamilton Island for master-classes and meals with Chef Dan Hunter, formerly of The Royal Mail, now running his own restaurant, Brae. Held periodically throughout the year on this tropical Queensland island in the Whitsundays group of 74 … Read more
Yesterday I was chatting about boutique cruises over a glass of wine with a hotelier in Siem Reap, as I seem to be finding myself increasingly doing these days. Not the chatting about boutique cruises bit, but the chatting over glasses of wine. I’ve come to the conclusion that the more you travel the more … Read more
After a couple of months staying in boutique hotels in Siem Reap and Bangkok, we’ve reaffirmed something we’ve increasingly felt over the years and that’s that when it comes to choosing hotel accommodation when we travel, boutique hotels suit us better. We much prefer small local boutique hotels to big bland multinationals. We’ll take more … Read more
We’ve had some emails from friends and readers asking: is it safe to travel to Turkey now? Terence and I have been travelling to Turkey for 13 years, since we first went for a summer with a friend, so here’s what we think. That initial trip we travelled by bus and train from Istanbul down … Read more
Food Street, Tong Duy Tan was our Hanoi home for three months. Lined with boisterous shophouse eateries, busy food stalls and rowdy late-night local bars, the street noise didn’t bother us. But the daily karaoke like clockwork on the other side of our apartment wall drove us absolutely mad. But who wouldn’t sacrifice a little … Read more