Hanoi had been on my radar for a very long time, I knew that it did not have many great sights but it had such a history in the struggle of the Vietnamese people it was a destination I was looking forward to seeing.
This Thai New Year I was in Chiang Mai - home of the most famous ‘Songkran Festival’ to get a gist of this watery and rather unique celebration....Read about my wet week..
I took the time to spend more than a few hours in Singapore's transit lounge and got out to see and experience the mainland of Singapore and was not at all disappointed! Here are a few travel tips...
Stepping out of your comfort zone is eminently rewarded in Nicaragua; the small towns may not be fully geared to tourism but the hospitality and friendliness of the locals makes up for the details...Read More
Salamanca....with over 33,000 students the vibrancy that is injected into the nightlife of the city is telling in the range of good cheap eateries and a stoic nightlife.....
Exploring St Petersburg is an amazing experience, best accomplished via foot and with a guide. There is simply so much to see and do its advisable to have a local help you discover millenniums of history...
Bogota rang all my warning bells, and for good reason. Within two nights and I had been mugged and stabbed twice. But, I still believe I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and Bogota has much to offer the interested traveller...
Generation X has been labelled as being leaderless - a lost generation with no great idols to aspire to. That is a myth. As an eternal traveller, I believe that Patrick Swayze's role of Bodhi in Point Break has defined a whole generation.....
Glamor camping, or what is now commonly known as 'Glamping' is the new craze sweeping the financially strapped UK, in which sees locals glamping in their own countries as apposed to the annual European holiday abroad...
Assuming you are healthy, have a hearty appetite and a rapacious capacity for Rioja and Cerveza we are set to discover a real travellers city, Barcelona, in 24 hours....

Craig and Linda have been travelling the world for three years now and we love them because they use Travel Generation to plan and schedule all their travels. Follow their itineraries here.