A full time engineer, a part time blogger and a lifelong tourist
Where and when: Petra, Jordan – 4th Feb 2023 0800: Today is a free day for us to spend at Petra, so the minibus drops
Where and when: Petra, Jordan, 3rd Feb 2023 0800: Leave Aqaba and head to Petra, Jordan’s most well known tourist site as well as a
Where and when: Wadi Rum and Aqaba, Jordan, 2 February 2023 0600: Another early start, not least because I slept in fits and starts due
Where and when: Wadi Rum, Jordan. 1st February 2023 0715: Breakfast at Hotel Toledo in Amman. Good selection of local and international foods. 0800: Leave
Where and When: Amman, Jordan – 31st January 2023 0300: The alarm goes off. A very, very early start for me. As I had an
Time poor – such a loaded phrase. But the fact is, with a full time job, many of us only have so many days off
We visited Antwerp last December, for a pre-Christmas city break. Antwerp is the second most populous city in Belgium, with a population of around 1.2
There’s the middle of nowhere, there’s the back of beyond, and then there is St Kilda. St Kilda is an archipelago located 50 miles off
The Sri Lankan New Year is just around the corner. It is the biggest festival on the Sri Lankan calendar and is the equivalent of
To me, every trip I take brings many surprises. Some good, some not so good. But each one is a chance to learn and to
0900: It’s our last day in China. Today, we are visiting the world famous Chengdu Panda Breeding Research centre. It is a relatively early start,
0930: Today we are going to see Leshan Buddha, the largest Buddha statue in the World. Leshan is a 2 hour drive from Chengdu, so we
0900: It’s our last day in Tibet. We are travelling from Shigatse to Tibet, and catching a flight back to Chengdu. So, not a lot
After a bit of a break, it’s back my series of post of Southern China and Tibet. I’m picking up where I left off, Day
Diary of a Tourist 