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15 Things Not to Do while Travelling

09:57 PM, January 19, 2013 |

UPDATED FROM THE ORIGINAL 11

1) Go anywhere, anywhere near Heathrow Airport when it snows

London is not Stockholm, Moscow, Berlin or Toronto. It cannot cope with snow. It runs around after its tail, flurrying and freaking for a few moments when the sky threatens white; and then it stops.

Quiet, silent meditation is fine. Except if you’re one of the world’s busiest airports. We thought we’d been canny booking our flight out of Heathrow on the 18th of December. The past few snows have been closer to Christmas. What we didn’t count on was January snow. It’s a two hour transfer from The Sacred Valley to Cusco. It’s an hour and a …

24 Hours in Miami

09:41 AM, January 14, 2013 |

Eating out - Miami

‘Why are you going to Miami? It’s like Vegas, but with a beach’.

Ah, the beach. Key words, right there.

Miami is not for everyone. If you love a spangled dress that barely covers your vitals, deafening dub step and cocktails as big as a fireman’s helmet, there’s plenty for you here. Just not in the 800 words or so you’ll find below.

If on the other hand you have a thing for art deco fixtures, like a long promenade to go jogging along before breakfast, have a hankering for clear water, gentle waves, great hotels and good food you can easily amble to for lunch and dinner, then South Beach has all …

Roast Poussin (baby chicken) with Red Grapes, Rosemary and Pine nuts

12:15 AM, January 11, 2013 |

chicken, In the kitchen, Italian

There are dishes that stain your memories; that tag along with your thoughts like a nagging toddler. This is about one of them.

Based on some bogus science I would hazard a guess that for every 24 chicken dinners that prove beige and forgettable, there’s one that will sing.

I’m thinking about chicken a bit at the moment. There’s not so much fowl on the menu in the parrilla’s we’re frequenting in Buenos Aires. There’s plenty of steak, sure, dripping and rosy. There are stubby links of chorizo, platters of offal and a panoply of ways to serve dulce de leche (so far it’s been sampled in milkshakes, on pancakes, over flan, …