For a long time, the Seychelles were my home. I’m Seychellois, ninth-generation on my father’s side, and I spent much of my youth in this small island nation out in the Indian Ocean, about a thousand miles off the coast of Kenya. So when people ask me how to spend a week in the Seychelles, […]
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Guide for Moving from Blogger to WordPress: How to Migrate Your Blog
From time to time I like to pull back the blogging curtain and talk about something related to the technical side of blogging. Because there’s more to running a successful travel blog than just travel! I have put together a few guides to blogging, including my popular guide to becoming a travel blogger. Today, I’m […]
2 Days in Dublin: The Itinerary We’d Actually Do (2026)
We’ve lost count of how many times we’ve been back to Dublin. It keeps pulling us in, sometimes as the start of a longer Ireland trip, sometimes as a long weekend on its own, sometimes as a stopover that quietly turned into something more. Over those visits we’ve walked most of the city on foot, […]
The Best Photography Locations on the Isle of Wight, UK
One of the things I wanted to do on our trip to the Isle of Wight was find the best photography locations on the island. This wasn’t too hard – the island has plenty of photography opportunities, and it was a lot of fun to head out and find them! In this post I’m going […]
Back Button Focus: What It Is, How to Set It Up, and Whether You Still Need It
I’ve been focusing with my thumb since 2013. That was the year I bought a Canon 6D, a camera with eleven autofocus points huddled around the middle of the frame, and back button focus went from something professionals mentioned in passing to the only sensible way I could work. Thirteen years on I’m shooting a […]
Skiing in the Cairngorms: A Guide to CairnGorm Mountain (2026)
I’ve skied a fair bit over the years, in California, Austria, Italy, France and Spain. But despite living in Scotland at the time, I’d never actually skied in the UK, which always struck me as a bit of an oversight for a man who writes about travel for a living. So when Jess and I […]
Best Lenses for Travel Photography: A Pro’s 2026 Picks
I’ve been a professional travel photographer since 2010, and the gear question I get asked more than almost any other, by readers here and by students on my online travel photography course, is a simple one: which lens should I actually travel with? Usually the person asking has a camera with interchangeable lenses, a mirrorless […]
2 Days in Rome: The Itinerary I’d Follow on a First Visit (+ Map)
Rome is one of our favourite cities in Europe, and we have visited many times over the years. We just keep coming back. The food, the history, the gelato, the way every street seems to have another two-thousand-year-old building hiding around the corner. Two days is tight, but it’s enough to see the highlights if […]
How Much Does it Cost to Travel in the UK?
One of the most common questions we’re asked from people who read our UK guides, and in particular our detailed one week and two week UK itinerary posts is: how much does it cost to travel in the UK? Of course, the answer is – it depends! There are a lot of factors to consider, […]
2 Days in Aberdeen: An Aberdeen Itinerary
Thinking of taking a trip to Aberdeen? Scotland’s third-largest city sits in the granite-grey north-east, and on a sunny day those quarried stone facades sparkle. We’ve visited Aberdeen many times over the years, in every season, and have stayed in the city for everything from a long weekend to a week-long base for exploring the […]