Tag: travel
#oneaday Day 827: Today is pancakes
Forgive the interruption in posting pattern yesterday, but I just had to have a little rant about the number of people using their phones in the pool. Stop it! Also, I will now stop talking about it, and talk about today, whose main attraction was our traditional visit to The Pancake House. The Pancake House...
I need a road trip.
I miss the west. I can’t believe it has been so long since I’ve been out there.
Booked Solid No More: China's Young Travelers Are Falling Out of Love With Minsu
A guesthouse owner in central Chongqing spent this summer watching half his rooms sit empty a five-minute walk from the city's top attractions, and on the last day of the school holidays put his three-year-old business up for sale. His plight is the industry's: some 375,000 Chinese minsu now compete on sameness and price as young travelers drift to hotels, concerts and festivals.
Five Days, 100,000 Yuan: Foreign Executives Are Touring China's Factories Instead of Its Monuments
Customised 'science and technology study tours' of Chinese factories and robotics labs now cost foreign investors about 100,000 yuan for five days, and demand is strong; CCTV Finance traces the boom to the rise of China's AI and humanoid-robot industries.
Who said a tech addict can't be comfortable far from home?
When I relocate I like to be as comfortable as possible without having to buy new gear. In this article I describe my setup in details and some of the reasoning that made me come up with it.
Seven Women, One Tour Group, One Scam: China's Travel-Buddy Culture Meets Its Fraudsters
A traveler discovered that seven solo women in her northwest China tour group had all been recruited by the same fake 'dazi' — the travel-partner matching trend that has become a fixture of young Chinese life — in a scam that begins with weeks of friendly chat and ends with an unexpected busload of strangers and a driver demanding the balance.
Three Days of Leave, Thirteen Days Off: Chinese Workers Race to Assemble the Year's Longest Break
Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day holiday fall three working days apart this year, and the 'please 3, rest 13' scheme that fuses them into a 13-day break is trending as workers swap excuses for asking their bosses — while travel bookings for the window start more than ten days early.
Sea Scotland, Eat Scotland
So as mentioned on my Now page, I headed to Scotland about a month ago for a wedding and a cross-country road trip that sung to my soul. Taking a trip north of the border just makes me happy, and you can see why so much of the country's culture is inspired by Caledonia. But...
Terra Cognita
A few thoughts at the end of our India post
A 3,500-Kilometer Run to Walk the Kid Through the School Gate, Guests Included
A family of six from Shandong is driving 3,500 km to deliver their son to medical school in Xinjiang, four adults taking turns at the wheel and the grandfather coming along to see his own brother. It's a small, warm snapshot of how Chinese families mark university admission.
Chinese Families Are Paying Big-City Prices to Vacation in County Towns
This summer, families from China's biggest cities decamped to county towns for their vacations, where hotel rates now rival first-tier destinations and the draw is a slower kind of place.
A Sunday Drive Retrospective
Things move a little faster in late summer.
Smoky Mountain National Park
A week in a forested wonderland
The road to recovery
Camino de Santiago: sanctuary and path to healing.
Morning View
Not a bad view with your morning coffee.
50 Before I’m 50 – Visit the Lemmings Statue
As part of my Scottish road trip I mentioned on the Now page, I headed to Dundee as my partner had one thing she wanted to do (The V&A Museum) and I had one thing I wanted to do. To see the Lemmings Statue. The Lemmings Statue is a statue in a park close to...
easyJet Launches Three New UK Winter Routes Starting From £18.99
If you had “winter holiday in Kosovo” on your 2026 travel bingo card, go ahead and collect your winnings. Let’s be entirely honest: most budget flight announcements are incredibly boring. Usually, it is just another low-cost carrier adding a third daily flight to Alicante or shuffling slots around Mallorca. But every now and then, we […]
We’re in Wales
As mentioned at the start of the month, we're off to Wales again for our summer holiday, and by the time you read this, we should have been there a couple of days. We're staying near Conwy again, in a rented holiday cottage, as a group of five - me, Christine, our ten-year-old and my...
Mozambique, Vol. 2
Back in Maputo for a second X-Road workshop.
Osaka, Japan Part 3
The final leg of my trip to Japan: Expo 2025 in Osaka.
Tokyo and Osaka, Japan Part 2
The second part of the collection of photos I took during my trip to Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.
Tokyo, Japan Part 1
Part one of my trip to Tokyo in Jun 2025 (there was a lot worth taking a photo of!)
Siargao & Cebu, Philippines
Surf Trip to Siargao, via Cebu, Philippines
Lake Tahum, Laguna, Philippines
Laguna is a province just southeast of Manila and Laguna de Bay, in the Philippines.
The Crows Of Shenton Way.
A small corner of Singapore's financial district is the scene of a display of animal behaviour that tells the story of why they call a group of these intelligent corvids "A Murder of Crows".
Peoria Riverfront Museum: Part 2
A trip to the Peoria Riverfront Museum in Peoria, Illinois. Covering the Dan Fogelberg exhibit as well as Various & Sundry
Peoria Riverfront Museum: Part 1
A trip to the Peoria Riverfront Museum in Peoria, Illinois. Covering the special exhibit The Promise of Liberty, with guest curator Ken Burns.
It's a big world out there
The Day the Rains Arrive
An attempt to articulate the feeling of when the monsoon comes to Mumbai.
The Day the Rains Arrive
An attempt to articulate the feeling of when the monsoon comes to Mumbai.
Cats street art
In the center of The Hague you can find a small street called "Achterom" with a lot of street art centered around cats. It's a narrow street, so not easy to picture the cats. Best view is when simply walking through the street, but hereby some of the pics I made. Pictures are made with...
5 great campsites in The Netherlands
There are many campsites in The Netherlands. And a lot of people in The Netherlands like to co out camping. Manay families have a caravan, tent or camper. But on most campsites there are also facilities for rent. Houses or tents. Often the rental tents are more luxury than bringing your own, hence the term...
A Trip to Mozambique
I got to visit Mozambique as part of a digital government consulting gig.
Hiking in The Hague
A hike from the centre of The Hague to Scheveningen https://www.tiktok.com/@hvandenbergh/video/7647517212969880864?_r=1&_t=ZG-95swP3oDF1F
Cities
Tokyo through Meiji-era militarisation: a reading itinerary
Six days in Tokyo tracing the physical residue of Meiji Japan's transformation from closed feudal state to empire — through shrines, architecture, art museums, and one ship I never got to visit.
can i fit this in the overhead bin?
i went to Tallinn in Estonia last week, taking the ferry from Helsinki. the ferry is a ferry the way costco is a store. it had a two-story duty free shop. i bought what i thought was a juicebox with barbie on it. turns out it was pink barbie milk. it's unclear why ferries are still classified as 'ground transportation'. i got in around 3:30pm and the first thing i do in a new city is go to the grocery store. i love to learn languages, and perusing a grocery store is one of the best ways to do th...
Hanoi: visiting the capital during Vietnam’s 80-year anniversary weekend
I actually didn’t plan to be in Hanoi during a national holiday - it happened by accident, and I ended up being really grateful for it.
Exploring the rainforest in Suriname 🇸🇷
A few days near the maroon villages on the Upper Suriname River in Suriname.
The most magical sunrise in Suriname 🇸🇷
Hiking up on Fredberg mountain for a hammock camping experience.
Flamingos in Big Pan (Suriname 🇸🇷)
Lots of flamingos, but only little water in the Big Pan wetlands.
Night walk in Peperpot (Suriname 🇸🇷)
A night walk through the Peperpot Nature Park.
Bird watching in Frederiksdorp (Suriname 🇸🇷)
A little oasis on the grounds of a former plantation.