Earlier this year I enjoyed my first foreign holiday since the pandemic. A friend and I visited Marmaris, Turkey, in April for a relaxing break. We stayed at the TUI Blue Grand Azur. It was the first time I had booked a holiday with TUI and I was incredibly impressed. Everything went really smoothly: the…
Tag: Asia
South Korea
South Korea is a brilliant place to go on holiday. I visited to stay with a friend who was teaching English out there, and had a wonderful time. It’s a modern, dynamic country, but cheaper than, say, Japan. The capital, Seoul, offers a 24-hour party lifestyle, if that’s your thing. Try soju, the Korean beverage…
Hong Kong
I spent a week in Hong Kong in March 2010. Why Hong Kong? Well, I decided that I wanted to go somewhere reasonably far-flung; it should be somewhere I could ‘do’ in a week; I knew I would be travelling alone, so it should be somewhere safe; and it should have a prospect of reasonable…