I’ve been a full-time travel blogger since 2010, and for years a Kindle came with me on our tris. I had the original model, and later upgraded to one with a built-in light so I could read in the dark. Then, once phone screens got big enough, I stopped packing it, and these days I […]
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What to Do With Your Travel Photos After a Trip: My Whole Workflow
I’ve been a working travel photographer for more than fifteen years, and I still come home from every trip with a memory card holding two or three thousand frames. Taking photos is the easy part. The bit where most people get stuck is what to actually do with them once you’re home, sitting on a […]
Best Travel Headphones in 2026: What I Pack (and What Stays at Home)
I’ve been flying long haul since I was a teenager, when boarding school in the UK meant a flight back to the Seychelles at the end of every term. Add a travel blog that has kept Jess and me in the air regularly since 2010, and I’ve spent a decent chunk of my life at […]
The Best Portable SSDs for Photographers in 2026
The best portable SSD for most photographers right now is the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V3. If you shoot on a Mac, the Samsung T7 Shield is the better buy, for reasons that catch a lot of people out. I have a computer science degree, I’ve been building my own computers since I was 18, […]
Day Trips from Rome: 9 Trips Worth a Day (And 3 to Skip)
I’ve been visiting Rome since I was 15, and Jess and I have taken every one of the nine day trips in this guide ourselves, from the ruins of Pompeii to a plate of truffle pasta in Civita di Bagnoregio. There are dozens of places you could reach from Rome in a day. Nine of […]
Where to Stay in Iceland: A Complete Region by Region Accommodation Guide
Figuring out where to stay in Iceland was one of the trickiest parts of planning our trips there. It’s not like most European countries where you can rock up to a town and find a dozen hotels to choose from. Outside Reykjavik, accommodation is limited, it books up fast, and it’s not cheap. We’ve visited […]
The Best Cotswold Villages: Where to Go, and What to Skip
I lived in Bath for four years, right on the southern edge of the Cotswolds, and I’ve been going back ever since. My brother lives in the region now, so this is an area I know reasonably well. The short answer to this guide is that all the Cotswold villages are beautiful. This is actually […]
The Best Travel Daypack for 2026: Our 11 Picks
I’ve been carrying the same Osprey daypack for the best part of two decades. It has been rained on, sat on, squashed under plane seats and dragged up a fair few hills and mountains, and it’s still going strong. Osprey stopped making that exact model years ago, which tells you something about how long a […]
Visiting the Cotswolds Without a Car: Which Villages Actually Work
I spent four years living in Bath, on the southern edge of the Cotswolds, and the villages up the road were an easy day out for us. I’ve also done two coach tours through the region from London as a paying customer, so I know what the tour version of a carless visit looks like […]
Best NYC Observation Deck: Which One Should You Actually Pick?
Jess and I have been up three of New York’s five observation decks across multiple trips to the city. I’ve stood on the Empire State Building’s 86th floor at least three times now, we’ve done Top of the Rock and One World Observatory together, and I’ve spent a fair chunk of my working life as […]