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What Kazimierz Remembers.
The Old Jewish Quarter, Kraków It’s early Sunday morning as I peer down into Plac Wolnica. Overhead grey skies are cracking apart and promising a fine day. A school group huddles in one corner taking pictures of the exterior of the Ethnographic Museum with their phones. Middle-aged couples wearing precautionary rain jackets and backpacks…
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Tin, Fire and Reinvention
Hotel Stripes, Kuala Lumpur Rooftop bars can be the most terrible flirts, promising transcendent views, uniquely cultivated cocktails and dishes to elevate your night, if not your entire life. By comparison, Bar Tao Man, at Hotel Stripes Kuala Lumpur, under promises and over delivers. As I climb the dozen steps from the elevator to the level…
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Badly Drawn Postcards and the Mexican One That Didn’t Arrive.
Many industries are romanticised by those on the outside looking in and the travel industry is an exemplar of this. It’s a wildly competitive industry where the grit more than outweighs the glamour. Don’t mistake me, it’s an industry I love deeply, but I suspect my friends’ perception of my former role within it…
