Meeting early in Chinatown, I boarded the bus that would take us on our trip with mostly Chinese tourists, but also Europeans and some Americans and Australians. Each of our days involved early starts and late finishes, but crammed in a lot into just 3 days! We began the trip heading north, stopping at the Secret Caverns en route...however with the trip already not being cheap, I decided that for most of these "optional excursions" as they were called, I would n...

After 19 hours of travelling, I had finally arrived in my last destination, New York just after midnight on a cold November evening. I then had to make my way from JFK airport to my hotel in Chinatown, adding another hour or so to my day, but when I finally arrived I did find my room to be lovely and warm, and easily set about going to sleep and having a long lie in. Waking up at about 9am, I decided not to keep lying in bed, as I had a very early start the ne...

Having briefly visited Miami (well, the airport) ten days previously, I returned to the the city after flying back over the beautiful Caribbean. This time having a much longer transfer, after getting through the rudest immigration department I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with, and having to re-check-in my luggage I went into the city itself. There wasn't an awful lot to see other than Miami Beach and the downtown areas - the novelty of these had p...

Whilst staying in St. Maarten, I took a colonial trip over the border into the French side (after all this was one of the worlds smallest divided islands), stopping at the Dutch-French border (Belgium of the future?) before taking the ferry over to Anguilla - a British colony. The French side of the island, classed as an integral part of France itself, and therefore part of the Eurozone and the EU, was completely different to the Dutch, feeling much more colon...