Despite them being highly recommended by friends, I’d never taken a walking tour with Context Travel. Until, that is, our recent trip to Italy, where as well as having a wedding ceremony in Venice, we also took a number of walking tours with them, in Venice, Rome, and Florence. Context is a fairly specialist walking […]
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Walking tours in Rome: How to See The Highlights of Rome
Rome. The Eternal City. A place so stuffed with history that they’ve had to layer it, like a cake, sandwiched atop itself. Everywhere you look, history piles upon history, from thousands of years ago to the present day, all jostling for space in the city, and time on your itinerary. It’s one of our favorite […]
Adventure Activities in Costa Brava
We spent almost a month in Costa Brava recently, exploring all there was to offer in the last of the summer months of 2015. This was our third visit to this region, but we still found loads to do, from discovering Dali, through to exploring medieval villages, hiking up to castles and wandering on the […]
Route 66 in California: Our Photos and Tips from the Mojave to Santa Monica
Route 66 is without doubt one of the world’s most legendary roads, and driving the entire 2,400 miles of it was something I’d always wanted to do. In mid-2015, Jess and I finally did it, from Santa Monica in California up to Chicago, Illinois. Then we tacked on an adventure retracing the Oregon Trail (which […]
Visiting the Moulin Rouge In Paris – Everything You Need to Know!
There are some activities in Paris that are just so quintessentially Parisian that you can’t imagine doing them anywhere else. And one of those, in our mind, is attending a cabaret show. The most famous cabaret show in Paris, and probably the world, is the show at the Moulin Rouge. This was where the Can […]
The Best Backup Solutions for Travel
When we travel, we often rely very heavily on technology to help us preserve the memories of the trip we are taking. From photos to diary entries, trip notes to budget tracking, technology pops its head up all over the place to help us out. But what happens when things go wrong? What if our […]
Reviewing the Vanguard VEO Tripod
Update September 2020: Since I wrote this post at the launch of the VEO range in 2015, Vanguard have launched a number of new products in the VEO range. These include the VEO 2 and VEO 3 Go range of travel tripods, as well as the sturdier and heaver VEO 3+ range of tripods. As […]
10 Days of Travel in Morocco–A Photo Essay
We spent ten days in November travelling around the wonderful country of Morocco with Travel Talk Tours on their Exotic Morocco tour. You can see a full review of our Travel Talk tour of Morocco here. In the meantime, this post is full of some of the best photos from the trip to give you […]
The Best Photography Locations in London
As part of my on-going quest to find awesome photography locations around the world to share with you, I recently headed to London, a city I know and love, to see if I could put together a guide to the best photography locations in London. The bar has already been set high, with my guides […]
An overview of 4KPhoto with Panasonic Lumix
As you might be aware, I’ve been playing around recently with the awesome Panasonic Lumix GX8, a wonderful micro four thirds format camera that has let me capture some great moments, both ballooning in Costa Brava, and exploring Marrakech. The key new feature of the camera is a new “4K Photo” mode, which lets you […]