by Ian Ferris | Dec 31, 2017
A Thousand Years in 10 Days We have never witnessed poverty like we’re seeing across Myanmar. Ladies washing the family clothes and themselves whilst fully dressed in the river, cooking dinner over an open fire and relying on those huge bundles of clothes that arrive...
by Ian Ferris | Dec 30, 2017
A thousand years in 10 days Over the last couple of days our very lovely Ngapali resort has been filling up with New Year guests, mainly, it seems, little round Koreans. No, not that little round Korean…wait, one of them is wearing funny round...
by Ian Ferris | Dec 30, 2017
Ngapoli, Bay of Bengal, Christmas Day 2017 Myanmar, or Burma, if you prefer. What a country! This is, without any doubt, the most amazing, friendly and truly extraordinary country we have ever visited. Each day of our short tour of Myanmar / Burma shows us another...
by Ian Ferris | May 23, 2017
We awoke to the awful news of the Manchester bombing. So many young lives ended and maimed in the name of an extreme religious view, no doubt, and hundreds of families irreparably affected. This is a very different part of Italy for us this time, Le Marche...
by Ian Ferris | Mar 22, 2017
If it’s Tuesday then it’s Tobago Cays. I have honestly never seen a more intense aquamarine, turquoise blue sea before. It is simply startling. We dragged ourselves from breakfast up to the deck to watch the ship anchor a few minutes before our scheduled...
by Ian Ferris | Feb 2, 2017
Back Home…. Home again, to fine rain and grey skies, but we missed the recent snowfall in Kent, hopefully all we will get this winter. We’ve returned from the trip of a lifetime, and, as ever with wonderful holidays, it’s ended too soon. We’ve both enjoyed every...
