Eating out in Istanbul is a real delight, with some of the most delicious food you’ll find at this fascinating crossroads between Europe and the Middle East. Expect everything from inventive and elegant Modern Turkish fine dining restaurants, such as Mikla, to buzzy breakfast cafes, neon-lit pide salons, and lively local meyhanes. Istanbul may not have … Read more
Home to Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman treasures, Sultanahmet, Istanbul’s ‘old city’, on the European side of the Golden Horn, is where first-time travellers to Istanbul usually stay. It’s where we stayed when we first visited the city many years ago. Here’s our review of our Istanbul holiday rental apartment. Once you’ve seen Old Istanbul’s star attractions, … Read more
Our escape to Mombasa gave us time to reflect on our Diana Beach stay before our flight from Nairobi to Dubai and onto Istanbul, next stop on our yearlong grand tour devoted to slow, local and experiential travel. While we loved going on safari in the Masai Mara and Tsavo West, as much for the … Read more
When it comes to wonderful beaches around the world, Diani Beach, south of Mombasa, didn’t immediately spring to mind. Yet as we quickly discovered during our two weeks in Kenya, the place is popular with travellers looking to top or tail their safari trip with some sun, sea and sand. Being Australian, I’m pretty opinionated … Read more
It was reassuring to have someone from our holiday rental in Diani Beach, Kenya, greet us at Mombasa airport after dealing with the unsympathetic staff of Kenyan Airways, which couldn’t manage to get our bags on the same flight as us on the first leg of our journey from South Africa. Less reassuring was the … Read more