Are you sometimes afraid to travel? I've talked about my travel anxiety and pre-trip nerves before but earlier this year I had such a big reminder of why getting over those fears is not only important but utterly sensible. I admit: I was afraid to travel with my son to …
Penang 2014
Am I sad that an airline lost my luggage? Hell yes!
I am (usually) the kind of person who does not dwell on the negative. Life is too short, right? And every cloud, silver lining, blah blah blah. (And in most cases that stuff is actually true.) That's why it has taken me six months to blog about the fact that Tiger Airways (the Singapore-based …
8 things I learnt from staying in a Penang resort hotel for two weeks
I am not known as the kind of traveller who stays in a resort hotel. In fact, I've only ever bought a "resort package" style holiday once, on a last-minute trip to Egypt just after I'd arrived in Germany to work, but was promptly given two weeks off as all the students were going on holiday …