How is the week treating you? For those of you with school children currently on holidays, my wish for you is that you’re coping. I’m willing you through with 'emotional Panadol', via this Newsletter. For the rest of you, know that I’m always wishing you the best. I wanted to share a conversation I had this week ...
Catriona’s Travel Tips – Your Travel Questions Answered #23!
Question: Dear Catriona, I'm looking for recommendations for a short, four- or five-night itinerary for a trip to Tasmania at the end of January next year. We'll be flying over and hiring our own car and I'll be travelling with my mum in her late 60s, and my two children (aged seven and five). The options online ...
Guangzhou? Yes, mm goi!
Josh Zhu has held the title of Chief Concierge at Mandarin Oriental in Guangzhou since 2015. Guangzhou (广州; Gwóngjāu in Cantonese, Guǎngzhōu in Mandarin, Canton in English) is a sprawling, port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River, in southern China. Home to 12 million people, it's China's third biggest city, after Beijing and ...
Shipwrecks & ruins in the Greek Islands
Guest Traveller Laura Hopkins' Greek odyssey started solo, in the Peloponnese, before meeting up with her sister, Ella, in Zakynthos. The Peloponnese is a peninsula in southern Greece, separated from central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth and the Gulf of Corinth. Zakynthos is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. Let's join Laura on her journey... Laura Hopkins. My trip ...