Quirky Traveller's Tales

With so many iconic places to visit, holidays in Vietnam can be difficult to plan for. It is a country with deep history and interest; one with such natural beauty that every city and town has a huge amount to offer. However, no trip to Vietnam’s is complete without a visit to its capital city, [...]

I was thrilled when Zoë agreed to let me write a guest post for The Quirky Traveller as I love her way of seeing the fun in everything. I reckon she would love the Magic Circus Hotel in France, where I spent Christmas, as it’s a French manor-inspired hotel with a circus theme! I decided to [...]

Quirky Travel is all about seeing the world from a different angle, looking at things from all sides, finding the unusual, the interesting, the fascinating.  Meeting delightful people, discovering new cultures, eating strange foods and seeing curious customs, have fuelled my life-long love of the breadth and depth of experiences that travel gifts to us [...]

May Your Days be Merry & Bright … Just before Christmas I was invited to learn how to make cocktails at the Cavendish Hotel, just off Piccadilly, round the corner from its sister hotel, the world-famous Ritz in the heart of luxury London.  The hotel was previously owned by Rosa Lewis, the renowned ‘Duchess of [...]

Picture the scene…middle-aged couple, two monsters children, busy working lives, and never any time to be together. Not even date nights.  Such is my life.  And then … a surprise birthday gift. Vouchers for GilpinLodge, a luxury country house hotel in the heart of the Lake District.  My mind was made up.  No flitting this [...]

“The first thing which I remember as an event in life was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friars Crag on Derwentwater.”  Victorian art critic and philanthropist John Ruskin described this view as one of the three most beautiful in Europe.   Friars Crag is a one of the most popular places to visit in [...]