For this month's Travel Tales, TLE caught up with London-born actor Marina Sirtis who is best known, perhaps, for playing Counselor Deanna Troi in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Here Marina tells us about staying in B&B's in places like Southend and Margate as a kid, visiting her...
Mumbai is a big, bonkers, beeping-horn-of-city with traffic jams made up of roaming goats, honking rickshaws and knackered, red, London-style double-decker buses. However, India's most populous city is also home to some of the biggest smiles and best street food you'll find anywhere in the world. As well as some...
For this month's 'Quit your job and travel the world like...' we caught up with the remarkable 32-year-old environmentalist, Lizzie Carr. After being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, aged just 27, Lizzie briefly returned to the agency life in search of normality but soon decided it wasn't for her. Lizzie, who...
Gloucester Road is an area in West London that's packed with hotels - possibly due to its quiet, leafy surroundings and proximity to Central London. TLE recently spent the night at the newly-renovated ibis Styles Hotel to see how much bang for your buck you get for £150 in this...
Piki bread is a newspaper-like roll of wafer-thin flaking pastry, which tastes like unsalted corn chips. Despite its misleading name, piki bread has the texture of a flying saucer sweet and tastes nothing like bread as we know it.Made from finely ground corn, water and ash, piki bread is the...
Just as I’m about to tuck into a wildly over-elaborate breakfast, I’m joined by an uninvited guest. As it hops towards my plate I shout, “Bugger off”. It takes off into a nearby bush. I take a sip of my tea then look around. A few hundred metres away waves...
It's no surprise that London has its fair share of hotels (1876 according to one online hotel booking site). Options range from boutique luxury hotels and high-end continental big hitters to family B&B’s and budget guesthouses. More recently, however, the big smoke has seen a rise in aparthotels, which combine...
It's unlikely you have heard of Petit St Vincent, but you ought to have. This exclusive James-Bond-style private island - think Daz-white beaches, paisley turquoise and blue seas and a scattering of hand-crafted bungalows - is part of the southern Caribbean’s Grenadine island chain. Accessible only by a tiny propeller...
Our writer tries out Colorado's champagne powder for the first time