Food, Drink & Travel

Bangkok is not as you expect it. But it is neither as you would imagine it to be, and this is not a contradiction in terms. welcome to bangkok. In europe we cannot even conceive the existence of a metropolis like this – not simply a crossroad or a final destination for millions of tourists who every year travel along the far eastern routes. Bangkok is the city of scents, of striking contrasts that sometimes are drawn towards each other and much more. Read the rest of this entry »

Come to Venice Beach on a sunny weekend afternoon and you’ll find a pretty lively scene. Along the Ocean Front Walk, also called the Venice Boardwalk, jugglers and acrobats, tarot readers and Mad Hatter headwear vendors, jug-band musicians and political types circulating petitions to decriminalize marijuana all compete frantically for your attention. If voyeurism is more your style, sit back and watch bikini-clad women watching body builders watching themselves flex at Muscle Beach. Read the rest of this entry »

When Bram Stoker wrote his classic novel, Dracula, he spawned an entire genre of vampire movies, from the pallid horror and busty swoonings of cheesy films like Brides Of Dracula to the angsty teenage smarts of The Lost Boys (‘My own brother, a goddamn, shitsucking vampire. Boy, you wait till mom finds out, buddy’).

For the inveterate traveller, though, the vampire of choice would have to be Polidori’s urbane but undead Lord Ruthven (a thinly-veiled Lord Byron) and the story of his travels across the globe with a mortal companion, Aubrey. From London to Timbuktu the henchman of Satan pouts, broods, complains and sulks, as he simultaneously tries to bring Aubrey over to the Dark Side and blames him for every late train that never arrives. He’s the travel companion from hell. Read the rest of this entry »

Apart from having more royals per square mile than any other country, England also has over 90% of the world’s Crop Circles, although these two facts are not necessarily related.

Most of the earliest crop circles were pretty tame affairs – just round discs of flattened wheat appearing in the middle of fields on Salisbury Plain. Then in the later part of the 1990s, crop phenomena of varying descriptions started popping up and the whole thing began to sound like a figure skating competition. There was the Mandlebrot formation, the Scorpion, the Think Bubble, the 10-petalled Mandela, the Asteroid and the DNA Double Helix formation: crop circle chasers were in their element. Read the rest of this entry »

Tanzania has some of the best wildlife viewing in Africa. The Serengeti with its endless plains and the biggest migration on earth, Tarangire with it’s unique landscape populated with elephants, Lake Manyara with dense forest and tree climbing lions and of course, Ngorongoro, a magnificent extinct volcano teaming with wildlife. Spending time in each park, we have the chance to get off the beaten track, and take advantage of opportunities as they arise – such as a lioness feeding its cubs. Visiting various areas of the Serengeti, we have the flexibility to witness the migration of the wildebeests in the optimal location in the company of our expert safari guide. A visit to a Masai village and a night safari add a unique dimension to this superb itinerary. Stunning sunsets seem to appropriately conclude each day, leaving lasting impressions of the charm and diversity of East Africa. Read the rest of this entry »