When I was younger I always dreamed of going to the Maldives and staying in a water villa (A villa on stilts over the water if you didn't know). I knew it wouldn't be cheap, I was just about to start a new job and probably wouldn't be able to get a xmas and new year off for a very long time so whilst I was young and before I have kids and can't afford it (not that I can afford it now) I decided to go. Probably the biggest problem with the Maldives is once you have been you're going to struggle to find anywhere as nice to go for your honeymoon, the only other problem is if you don't dive or like water sports there isn't much to do apart from eat, relax and ... read more

I know this isn’t exactly a travel blog as such as I’m from London but if everything goes to plan I will not be living in London forever so I’m allowed to write this blog! This is how I proposed to my soon to be wife (we’re getting married 21st Feb 2011), I had already done the gentlemanly thing and asked her father for his daughters hand in marriage (read my Goa blog) and I had already bought the engagement ring (read my New York blog) and Nikki knew I had done both. I told her that I wanted to surprise her when I asked her and so she would have to wait at least 3 months until I asked her but that it would probably be longer as she would be expecting it, with that ... read more

I got told I had to use up some annual leave at work or lose it, fantastic, time off work the only question where to go, the dollar was weak and I needed to buy my girlfriend an engagement ring and I’ve always wanted to go to New York, so it was a simple choice, we flew out on xmas day, which made it a lot cheaper. When we landed in New York we took a cab to our hotel, when we arrived on the street we started counting up the numbers......oh wait where is our hotel, there was just a big construction site where our hotel was supposed to be, maybe we have the wrong number, nope right number, oh no. It wasn’t as bad as we first thought, yes it was a construction site ... read more

Before my trip to Brazil someone had asked if I had ever seen the film ‘City of God’ I hadn’t but didn’t really think to ask why. This trip was nearly a three week long trip, my longest holiday at the time, I love caipirinhias (a traditional Brazilian cocktail), I love Churrrascarias (a type Brazilian buffet restaurant), I love sightseeing, what could go wrong. This is the story of my trip and how I got to enjoy everything I liked about Brazil plus some unexpected (and unwanted) surprises along the way........the things I do for love! My girlfriend and I had decided to book a trip to Rio de Janeiro for our two year anniversary, luckily that fell at the same time as The Rio Carnival, to say I was excited would be an understatement, we ... read more

Woohoo a mini holiday to Barcelona, I didn’t think I’d be able to sleep before going to the airport as I had to leave my house at 11:30pm but I managed a couple of hours, considering it was Easter bank holiday weekend it wasn’t that busy at the airport. When we checked into our hotel it was early morning, I was very impressed by the hotel it was very art deco, we didn’t know where to go so got a cab to the Gothic quarter, we had a walk around the cathedral and then down La Rambla. We decided to get a hop on hop off bus ticket, we stayed on the bus and took pictures from the top of most things but got off at Sagrada Familia, it was breath taking and it is still ... read more