10 rules to stress-free shopping in Asia
CNNGo, March 2011
High quality, low prices, great variety — Asia is a shopaholic's playground.But there are times when a pushy souvenir seller or extortionist bar owner will send you into spasms of exasperation.
Real Travel, April 2008
Anyone who says there's no skill in shopping has clearly never seen the inside of a Turkish bazaar. For the uninitiated, a trip to the market in a country like Turkey, Egypt or India can be daunting. Because it isn't shopping as we know it - nothing has a fixed price and everything is negotiable
TNT magazine, May 2007
It's hard to get away for a short break in Europe without parting with at least a couple of hundred pounds. And even then, you're likely to end up in a pretty average hotel, eating cheap food and watching your pennies fairly closely. But you don't always have to forego life's creature comforts to have a cheap break. In fact, a couple of days in the Croatian region of Istria could leave you with change enough to splash out on luxury
TNT magazine, March 2007
Apparently the Danes are the happiest people on Earth. A study conducted by the University of Leicester last year put their excess levels of joy down to the nation's health, wealth and education standards. But after an evening in Aalborg and a trip round the akvavit distillery I think I found a few more reasons
TNT magazine, June 2006
Everyone knows about the rolling hills and quaint medieval towns of Tuscany. Everyone. And they're heading there in droves, so much so that tourism authorities in some areas have started diverting their attention away from their usual job of attracting tourists, and are now working on discouraging them instead
TNT magazine, February 2006
Provence is famous for a lot of things: gorgeous, celebrity-packed beaches, worldclass food and a lifestyle that inspired books like A Year In Provence. But interspersed between fields of aromatic lavender and thyme, you'll also find a landscape brimming with grapes, where Provençal winemakers are leading the world in techniques for producing rosé wine