
What makes a “paradise island”? A beautiful, white sandy beach? Warm, perfectly clear sea, complete with shoals of playful tropical fish? Wooden bungalows that look out over long stretches of unspoilt and virtually uninhabited coastline? A bit of jungle in the middle for exploring? If this all sounds like the paradise ideal you’d imagined, then it also almost describes at […]

Bali has been a quiet time for us, but you can’t come here without testing out it’s legendary surf. Unfortunately for us, matching the amazing wave carvers and tricksters we’ve seen on the local beaches means starting surfing at about the age of nine. Two lessons wasn’t going to quite cut it. We did plenty of standing up though, largely […]

We’ve had plenty of fun with modes of transport recently. In Buenos Aires on Wednesday for example, our last South American taxi ride was characteristically terrifying, including as it did an 80mph race down the hard shoulder to avoid a jam, ridiculous overtaking in the airport car park and a moment where we casually ran over someone’s foot. Next, out […]