This article appeared in Conde Nast on November ’24. You can see the original article here. Flung out on the far edge of Georgia and almost spilling into Turkey, the coastal resort of Batumi is the second largest city in Georgia and the capital of the Ajara autonomous region. It is often overlooked on a first…
This article appeared in Golf Plus on June ’23. You can see the original digital print here. I was invited to play on some of Spain’s finest golf courses on the Costa del Sol which stretches along Spain’s southern edge. This region boasts 70 of Spain’s four hundred courses the highest concentration in all of…
This article appeared on the July ’23 issue of Travel + Leisure India. You can see the original digital print here. Georgian wine has captured the world’s attention with its explosive growth in recent years. Travel + Leisure India & South Asia’s contributor travels to the Kakheti wine region in Georgia to understand what makes the country’s…
In late 2020 when Covid was at its awful height, I bailed out and traded Gurgaon for Goa for six months. It was the single best move I made during the entire two years of the pandemic. I made lots of new friends, I discovered Goa from the inside out as a tourist-resident and I…
For the last two years, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the travel and hospitality industry. And travel writers like I have been on the thinnest end of the wedge. So, when I got an invite to travel to Thailand in February, it was like a lifebuoy being thrown to a drowning man and I grabbed…
Goa has always had the reputation of India’s premier party destination and none more so than in these post-Covid-19 times as tourists by their thousands have been flocking to this safe haven encouraged by the lack of quarantine or mask protocols. An essential ingredient of a good party scene is the availability of copious amounts…
The Speyside Malt Whisky Trail Distillery tours rank very high on the list of Scottish tourist attractions, attracting a total of two million visitors last year. Significant investments by major players in building and upgrading their visitor centres in Scotland have had a big role in driving spending by visitors up by 154 per cent…
What is Scotch whisky? You just can’t think of Scotland without thinking of Scotch whisky. Whisky is Scotland’s beloved national drink and its single biggest export, amounting to a record £4.70bn in 2018, up 7.8 per cent over the previous year. While Europe and the United States remain the biggest markets, with over 50 per…
If you love enjoying your single malts in these days of self-isolation, follow this virtual trail of distilleries in Speyside. Check out the full article on Travel+Leisure here.
If you took your map of Spain and threw it into a tub of water, the shrunken version that would emerge would likely to be an accurate representation of Castilla y León. A sprawling land of ancient Spanish kingdoms, dotted with beautiful towns, each with its own castle and cathedrals, Spain’s largest region follows the national…
