New Orleans is a city where the obvious answers (Bourbon Street, beignets, a cemetery tour) are roughly correct. Jess and I have visited New Orleans both during Mardi Gras week and on quieter return trips, and we put this list together as the 22 things we’d steer a first-time visitor towards in 2026. If you’d […]
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Best Luggage Trackers for Travel: Our 2026 Picks
Travel can have many unknowns, which is a part of the thrill and excitement. Will you like the food? Will the people be nice? How will you fit all your souvenirs in your luggage to get them back home? However, some unknowns veer away from exciting and sprint toward anxiety-inducing. One of the worst of […]
Best ND Filters for Travel Photography: 2026 Pro Picks
If you’re packing a camera for a trip and trying to work out whether an ND filter is worth the space in the bag, the answer is yes, with one caveat: which ND. Variable, fixed, magnetic, square slot-in. Three stops, six, ten. Different filters do different jobs, and the wrong pick is the one that […]
Two Weeks in the Seychelles: a Seychellois’s 14-day Itinerary, Inner Islands to Bird Island
I grew up partly on Bird Island, a low coral island a thirty-minute flight north of the main Seychelles airport. My parents ran the lodge there for many years, and for a long stretch of my childhood that one small island, all sand, palms and nesting seabirds, was simply home. I am Seychellois, ninth-generation on […]
How To Spend 2 Days In Verona
Two days in Verona is the right amount of time. You can comfortably tick off the Arena, the Romeo and Juliet circuit, and the big-hitter piazzas on Day 1, then move on to Castelvecchio, San Zeno, and Giardino Giusti on Day 2. Add an Arena opera if you’re visiting between mid-June and mid-September; even if […]
Where to Stay in New York City: A Neighborhood Guide
We’ve stayed in New York City many times now, across five Manhattan neighbourhoods plus an apartment in Brooklyn. Our stays have ranged from a points-burn Times Square hotel on my first ever visit (back before Jess and I started travelling together), up to a Fifth Avenue five-star opposite Central Park. We’ve done budget-end, mid-range chain, […]
Is the GoCity Pass Worth It? We’ve Used It in 8 Cities
We’ve bought GoCity passes in eight cities now. Most out of our own pocket, several for family and friends we were travelling with, and twice on press visits years ago (one Paris Pass, one London Pass, both disclosed). Over time the answer to “is the GoCity Pass worth it?” has become less of a yes-or-no […]
Our 7 Day Barbados Itinerary: How to Spend a Perfect Week
Jess and I spent two weeks driving around Barbados, and by the end of it we’d covered pretty much every corner of the island. We’d eaten our way through Bridgetown, watched racehorses swim at sunrise, got sunburnt on a catamaran (well, Jess did, but I’m getting to that), photographed the wild rock formations at Bathsheba, […]
How to Spend 2 Days in Venice: A Tested Itinerary from Someone Who Got Married There
I first fell in love with Venice when I was 15. I’d come with my parents, and a thunderstorm rolled in over St. Mark’s Square so dramatically that everyone else scattered. I had the whole piazza to myself, water pooling around the columns, pigeons gone, just me and one of the great squares of Europe. […]
A Guide to Planning a Trip to Barbados: Everything You Need to Know
Jess and I have spent a fair bit of time exploring Barbados, and in that time we’ve covered pretty much every corner of the island. For a day-by-day plan, see our 7 day Barbados itinerary. We’ve driven the wild east coast, eaten our way through the south, watched the sun set from the west, explored […]