Photos by Anna Sutton and Joshua Burns
I’m in Cartagena, Columbia and it’s 31 degrees Celsius in the shade. Here I am, rising up from my banana lounge like the crab-coloured sunbather that they call Caucasian, before I take the big plunge. I have a fetish for hotel swimming pools, particularly cerulean blue ones tended [...]

The Isle of Wight is England’s largest Island, separated from the mainland by the straight of Solent. Known for its natural beauty it has been a popular tourist destination since Victorian times. Now, I know what you are thinking: the Isle of Wight hardly sounds exciting. However, I beg to differ. If a local has [...]

Another clear blue sky but crippling temperatures. One step outside and you can feel the hairs in your nostrils icing up. The first icy breath catches in your throat, then you get used to it. It’s my turn to go for water. I walk down to the river and find a spot where fresh [...]

Should you go to Burma? For the reasons not to, packed in a wry little film starring Jason Schwartzman and Famke Janssen, see this clip.
As you struggle to make up your mind, read Rory Maclean’s Under the Dragon and Benedict Roger’s Than Shwe, Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant. For a light, but surprisingly clever read, try [...]

I like to tell people I have a green thumb. My father comes from a long line of farmers, and although I’m not exactly handy with a cattle brand I can, if pushed, drive a tractor. London is brilliant at maintaining its green spaces - you’re never too far away from a park [...]

Matti is up at 4am to put more wood on the fire and check the dogs. We sleep in till 8:30 and wake to the smell of fresh coffee. The cabin is cosy but there is 2cm of ice on the inside of the windows. Breakfast is a typically Swedish affair with cereals, yoghurt, ham, [...]

“Ready?” shouts Stina. We nod. “Remember to brake down the hill”, she warns, and hands me the anchor.

No time for goodbyes, our seven huskies heave into their harnesses and we tear downhill through the snow clad trees. One foot balances precariously on a single icy bar; the other stamps down hard on the black plastic [...]

January is a tough month in London.  If the sun wins its battle with the all consuming greyness, it’s gone by 4.37pm sharp. Temperature is a frosty 3 degrees on average, people on the tube are angry - and even born and bred Londoners look at investing in anti-SADS blue energy lights.  Throw in an [...]

After checking into my suite at London’s luxuriously old school Stafford Hotel, I sit back – glass of Dom Perignon in hand – and casually flick open the writing compendium. There before my eyes are not just a few very tasteful postcards to send home and an equally well-designed brochure highlighting its charms, but a [...]

Sitting at a waterfront table at the Nambawan Café in Port Vila, Vanuatu, I gazed out to sea and coveted the sight before me. Blue skies, even deeper blue sea, and the tallest, most elegant sailing ship I’d ever laid eyes on. Worth a cool USD $100 million, it was the floating home of [...]