I took my first long haul flight when I was three years old, and I’ve never really stopped. Boarding school in the UK from age fifteen meant a flight home at the end of every term, and these days Jess and I are full time travel bloggers and photographers for whom long haul flights are […]
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Scotland Packing List: What to Pack for Scotland by Season and Region
I lived in Edinburgh for four years, and Scotland has kept pulling us back ever since: repeat trips around the North Coast 500, Skye, Glen Coe, and one memorable evening in Ullapool that I’ll get to when we talk about midges. Over all those trips our Scotland packing has settled into a system, and this […]
2 Weeks in New Zealand: A Realistic Itinerary That Adds Up
I lived in New Zealand for a year, and in that time I drove just about every road in this article, some of them more than once. So when I tell you that you can see both islands in two weeks but probably shouldn’t try, that comes from adding up the actual driving hours rather […]
How to Travel with Camera Gear: A Photographer’s Practical Guide
I’ve been flying with camera gear professionally since 2010. These days that means a Canon EOS R5, a second body and a bag of L glass, and that kit has been on safari in Uganda, up to Iceland in winter, and around Europe on more budget short-haul flights than my shoulders would like. In all […]
One Day in Manchester: The Perfect Walkable Itinerary
I spent a summer living in Manchester, and Jess and I later went back for a fortnight, staying in an aparthotel by Piccadilly station. So when I say you can see the best of the city centre in a single day, on foot, without touching a tram, it’s because I’ve walked this exact loop, in […]
2 Days in Liverpool: An Itinerary Built Around What’s Actually Open
My mum grew up in Liverpool, my godmother still lives there, and I’ve been over a handful of times across the years, most recently in 2023. So before I put this two day Liverpool itinerary together, I already knew the thing that matters most about planning a visit right now: the waterfront is in the […]
The Best Binoculars for Birdwatching: My 2026 Picks
I grew up on Bird Island in the Seychelles, an island with a small handful of humans and several million nesting seabirds, where owning binoculars was less a hobby and more a condition of residence. My parents were keen birdwatchers and so were most of their friends, and I could tell a noddy from a […]
Best Cameras and Lenses for Bird Photography: Complete Kits by Budget
I’ve spent a lot of years pointing a camera at birds. The most memorable have been on trips: shoebill storks in Uganda, seabird colonies in the Seychelles and the Galapagos, and puffins in Iceland. The most frequent, by a distance, are the hummingbirds, woodpeckers and cardinals on our garden feeders most mornings, which is where […]
My Actual Travel Photography Kit (by Trip Type)
I’ve been a professional travel photographer since 2010, and in that time my camera bag has been on African safaris, out in the Arctic night in Finland and Iceland waiting for the northern lights, and around more European cities than I could sensibly list. I’ve also been a Vanguard ambassador for a number of years […]
The Best Binoculars for Safari in 2026: What We Actually Use and Recommend
I grew up on a small island in the Seychelles called Bird Island, which was home to a handful of people and several million nesting seabirds. Just about every adult I knew had a pair of binoculars within reach, and a decent chunk of my childhood was spent having the finer points of noddies and […]