Postcards from Ceylon Tea Trails: Tea and Trekking

Here’s a little secret for you: I’m not much of a holiday “experience” girl. I like to sit back swinging in a hammock as a man with a tray delivers a daiquiri, while the furthest I have to walk is from sun lounger to sea and the most I have to think about is whether or not I’ll have the…
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Flying high in the sky with Thai, Royal Silk Class, darling!

So you’ve either landed yourself here because you’re a regular reader or you’re researching travel to Thailand and you enquired after “best way to get to Thailand” sites. Well, folks, let me introduce you to the luxe layer when it comes to flying from London to Thailand, with Thai Airlines Silk Class. Last week I flew from London to Bangkok and…
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Travel Diaries: Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok

When I first received the itinerary for my adventures with PANDORA in Thailand, the name Mandarin Oriental jumped off the page at me immediately. The Mandarin Oriental Bangkok has been voted the world’s best city hotel several times now and is often cited in magazines as being one of the best experiences in customer service. In short, this was a…
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Which airline offers the best first class amenity kit?

If you’re lucky enough to be a first class frequent flyer, you’ll know the ins and outs of amenities kits. However, surely no one on earth will ever be able to put together a comprehensive analysis of amenity kits and how they stack up. That would more or less require constant flying, on every airline, in first class. If that…
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Insta-recap: From St. Barths to Antigua

We swear this is the last post about the Caribbean, for now anyway. So many of you were wonderful in keeping up with FFG on Instagram throughout our travels over the past 10 days. So we thought we’d give you a little recap of our journey through Instagram in one large block. From eating to beaching, swimming to starfish gazing, I hope…
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