Travelling Like a Local!
An impeccably dressed Ukrainian butler called Yanislav conducts a private tour of the comfortably appointed stateroom on board Asia’s first luxury cruise liner, as it departs on its inaugural voyage. The new 335-metre Genting Dream is making a night-time departure…
I am almost flattened by a charging donkey at the Sunday livestock market in Kashgar, a town in the far west of Xinjiang province. The mount is being test ridden by a Han Chinese trader at a furious pace, dust…
I am perched on the back of a Toyota Land Cruiser bouncing along narrow farm tracks that wind up to the Afton Saddle at Walter Peak Station. Also crammed into this tiny space at the back of the “ute” (Antipodean…
THE GOOD From Gaudi to Jordi, soccer to fashion, Barcelona is on many a bucket list. The stylish city packs a hefty sightseeing punch so, grab your camera, slip on a pair of comfy shoes and head underground. The metro…
“Work has commenced upon the three million dollar Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, which it is hoped to open in the winter of 1924,” ran the April 30, 1923 report in the South China Morning Post following the Hongkong Hotel Company’s…
DEAL OF THE WEEK One year on from its very grand opening, the St Regis Macao is in a surprising battle to keep the kitschy old Hotel Lisboa off TripAdvisor’s list of top hotels in Macau. At time of writing,…
If you can find your way to Markethill, a village in Northern Ireland, you could stay at a castle – for free. What’s more, it’s a set in Game of Thrones. However, in exchange for a free stay, you need…
Insta360 Nano Able to shoot and livestream virtual reality panoramic stills and videos directly from an iPhone, this tiny 360-degree camera (HK$2,118, www.aliexpress.com) attaches to the Apple Lightning slot on an iPhone. Bang & Olufsen QuietControl 30 Noise levels on…
Mong Kok is red, Admiralty is blue, and no one passing through Choi Hung MTR station can fail to spot the rainbow-streaked pillars at the platform. You may think the vibrantly coloured tiled walls of Hong Kong’s mass transit railway…
I’ve heard of Claridge’s, but where is it, exactly? Physically, the 197-room, five-star hotel once owned by a Mr & Mrs Claridge is housed in a seven-storey terracotta pile on Brook Street, in the moneyed, private members’ club land that…