"Oh Max," I moaned to my 11 year old son, "I want to write a post about someone amazing I met when I was travelling but I don't know who to write about....Read More

Can you imagine waking up in Paris in your own apartment? Sending your husband (or wife!) down to the local patisserie store to pick up fresh croissants ...Read More

Three years ago I bought the domain name Get In the Hot Spot.com and started to take my travel blogging seriously. Since then it's morphed froma travel ...Read More

Life's complicated, but not as complicated as working out the best way to manage your money while you're traveling. When we moved from New...Read More

A little birdy at the South African Tourism told me it's Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday on July 18th. That's special isn't it? But hearing that Mandela...Read More

Call them spoilt but once a travel professional or travel writer starts getting whisked around the world on press trips she also starts to get picky. ...Read More