I have to admit, I’ve always overlooked Lisbon as a city break destination; it’s fallen foul of the big hitters like Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Rome…..the list goes on. To me Portugal was the Algarve, golf, limited culture and not really a cosmopolitan location to while away a couple of days. However, faced with 2012 being our year of travelling to new locations and, after spotting a rather cool looking apartment for rent (at a very cool looking price), the Hubby and I decided to hop on the direct TAP Portugal flight from Manchester to see what Lisbon had to offer.
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On Safari
My ears pricked up recently when I heard that Richard Branson’s Virgin Limited Edition collection will be opening a Kenyan safari camp in 2013. If Ulusaba, his outpost in South Africa, is anything to go by this will be a stunning place with the emphasis on great quality, service and having fun but with leaving as minimal a footprint as possible and a focus on recruiting local staff.
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Keralaen Karma - India Revisited, Part 2
After 2 weeks travelling the dusty roads of Rajasthan with the frantic pace of city life and the incessant horn blowing (read about our trip here) the hubby and I were in need of some karma; a nice beach resort where we could relax before heading home. Having eschewed Goa – I did that as a student back packer – we opted for Kerala.
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The many faces of my travels
This weekend I decided to start something I’d been putting off for a while; sifting through all the photographs from my travels and trying to put them into some kind of order. Boy, what a mammoth job. I’d got as far as putting piles of boxes in front of me and then I started to reminisce. As I did, one thing struck me…..faces, lots of them, and each one looking right back out at me. I think this is usually how you can tell whether I took the photograph or the Hubby did; pictures of scenery are usually his and pictures of people generally mine.
I thought I’d share some of my favourite faces with you, each one a memory of a happy time.
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