Treading Lightly in Laos
Travel, as far and wide as you can. But tread lightly. Writing in Verge Travel.
Brave New Travel World
I usually get various reactions from editors when I send them submissions about traveling in Iran. They usually range from complete silence to cheeky replies regarding the sanity of those who travel in such places. So it was with great surprise that I got an email the other day from Trazzler asking me to write…
You’re Not Going There!?
Tell anyone that you’re traveling to the Middle East, and in particular Yemen and you will invariably get a similar response to the title of this post. It’s possible that you get a slight variant, like “You’re nuts!” or the more tactful, “But, isn’t it somewhat conflictive?” ranging to the brutal, “But they are terrorists!”…
The 10 Best Places to Swim…?
I read a post the other day listing the 10 best places to swim around the world. Reading through them I realized that I hadn’t been to even one of them! Poor me, but then I thought, wait…I’ve swum in some lovely places. Let’s narrow them down to 3 in no particular order. Ginnie Springs,…