Chaozhou has been on my list for a long time because every serious food person I know eventually talks about Chaoshan cuisine with a kind of quiet reverence. I chose to spend a weekend at Chaozhou and Nao’an Island; they’re
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After the intensity and history of Stone Town, we were ready for something slower, quieter and more beach‑focused. LUX Marijani, located on the northeast coast of Zanzibar, offered exactly that, a modern beachfront resort designed for unwinding rather than sightseeing.
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In the third instalment of the Tanzania series, I’ll take you to the incredible Zanzibar Island Stone Town, a 1.5-hour ferry away from Dar es Salaam. This post will be image-heavy and word-light because we only spent two nights in
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I’ve just completed the trip of a lifetime and I’m struggling with where to start in sharing all of this with you. I’m currently typing this on my first Qatar business class experience from Zanzibar to Doha and I could
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Early last month, I took a quick weekend trip to Seoul to do some skin touchups. I went back to the same place as last time, Alive Dermatology in Gangnam. This will be a short post, mostly to share some
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In November, I had the opportunity to visit a friend in Shanghai. I’ve been to Shanghai many times before and posted some pictures from my last visit, when it was very cold. This time, the weather was unseasonably warm and
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For this year’s National Holiday, I decided to visit the island of Bali for six nights. The holiday this year, which commemorated 76 years since modern China’s founding, was eight days long. This provided an opportunity for a longer beach
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In this post, I’ll share what went into planning and executing a 17-day, four city trip with my 80-year-old mother and several relatives who joined us along the way in Tokyo, Bangkok, Koh Samui and Hong Kong. Organizing a trip
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The first port of call for our Alaska cruise was the city of Sitka. What appears to be a small city turned out to be a massive one. Sitka is the second largest incorporated area in the USA, coming in
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In this post, we’ll be sharing some images and beautiful places we visited on our recent trip to Berlin, Germany. I had travelled to Germany in 1996 and had visited several car enthusiast dream locations, including the Porsche factory and
In this short post, I’ll share a few images from the Langyuan Station and Qianmen Hutongs areas of Beijing. I’ve written about Qianmen before so I won’t repeat the same information. You can read about the area at this link.
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There are some friends in this life that are my forever friends. They could do anything to me and I would still treat them as my friend. This group of friends includes about six people at present and I was
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