Verona is one of my absolute favourite cities in Italy, and I've spent enough time both visiting and lurking on Immobilare.it to have formed some opinions about the neighbourhoods around the city. When it's your first time visiting, it can be tricky to decide where to stay in Verona; you...

Setting Off The day after spending the night in a treehouse in the Khao Sok jungle, I found myself on a traditional longtail boat, sailing across the emerald water of Cheow Lan Lake towards the Khao Sok Smiley Lakehouse. I'd booked an overnight tour of the lake with Khao Sok...

Arrival At 8:30am, I stepped into the hot, humid air of Bangkok to find my Grab driver in the Suvarnabhumi Airport carpark. After an overnight flight from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, I was exhausted. I fell asleep in the back of the car as we crawled through the morning traffic, waking as...