I’ve been travelling to Italy for over thirty years, and for most of them I treated Naples as a place you pass through rather than stay. The station, the port, a quick espresso, and onwards to somewhere tidier. Then Jess and I gave the city four nights, ate our way down Via dei Tribunali, climbed […]
Archives for July 2026
The Best Packing Cubes for Travel: Our 2026 Picks and Buying Guide
We’ve been travelling and writing about it full time since 2010, and for the past four years most of our clothes have crossed borders inside a set of cheap Amazon packing cubes we bought when we were living in the UK. Jess, meanwhile, has been packing with the same Eagle Creek cubes for over twelve […]
The Best Hotels Near London Airports (And the One to Book at Each)
I lived in central London for over two years, and I’ve flown in and out of all six of its airports more times than I can count. In that time I’ve tried the 4am taxi across the city, the first train that arrives twenty minutes after bag drop opens, and the night spent airport-side at […]
The Best Travel Power Banks for 2026 (and Which Ones Are Actually Airline-Legal)
I’ve been buying, and wearing out, travel power banks since 2016. These days the one that lives in my camera bag is an INIU P63, a 25,000mAh brick I chose partly because it sits right around the airline carry-on limit, so I never have to think twice at security. Before that I carried an older […]
Amalfi Coast Itinerary: How Many Days You Need and Where to Base
I’ve been visiting the Amalfi Coast since 1995, most recently in 2023, when Jess and I based ourselves in Sorrento for the best part of a week and explored the coast from there. We’ve also done it the other way, cramming the whole coastline into a single day trip from Naples. I’ll save you the […]
Best Camera Bags for Travel Photography in 2026: What I Actually Use After 15 Years on the Road
I slipped on ice at Kirkjufell once, scrambling for a sunset shot, and the only reason my camera survived the fall was the bag I happened to be carrying. The dignity, of course, did not survive. Over fifteen years of professional travel photography I’ve put a lot of bags through a lot worse than that. […]