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A Miniature Museum – Not At All What You’d Expect!

In a quest to increase the number of different countries I’ve visited, a recent holiday to Barcelona and Carcassonne was planned to include a couple of days in Andorra. I had very little knowledge of Andorra aside from that it was a tax haven and it has a national football team that’s not [...]


Victoria Falls – Big and Wet

Big and Wet

As my time travelling to random places on a regular basis is over (new job), I thought I’d try and put together some more random thoughts on places I’ve been to over the past couple of years.

One such place was Zimbabwe. Not exactly the number [...]


Kenya: Better than London Zoo

Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya

Having found myself in Nairobi, Kenya over a weekend with very little to do I looked into some tourism options. I was recommended Lake Nakuru national park, a smallish national park with a vast array of wildlife, but no elephants. I was picked up from my hotel at [...]


Fizzy Ale?

Whilst on an eight day tour of New Zealand’s South Island, one of the first activities planned was the journey from Christchurch, on the east coast to a town called Greymouth on the west coast. This involved an amazingly scenic ride through the ‘Southern Alps’ on a fairly rickety train. The views [...]


120 miles didn’t seem that far…

Ok this was actually ages ago, long before andyfied started demanding travel stories from everyone he’s even been the proximity of for a minute to contribute to his ‘website’.

Well over a year ago I found myself in India on a business trip with a few days to spare between meetings. [...]