Having grown up within the shadow of the M25 and spending the last three years as a History student in the rainy steel city of Sheffield, surely now would be a perfect opportunity to get away. Yet a chance to intern with the My Destination content team and recite endless stories of globetrotting has kept Sophie in another wet city for a little while longer. If she ever manages to pull herself away she would most love to ride a horse in the deserts of Jordan in the style of Indiana Jones. Or travel on the Tran-Siberian express to Russia, stopping in Mongolia to track down nomads.
Whilst I was well aware that somewhere in Hong Kong they harboured Mickey Mouse and friends, I never expected the whole city to feel like a theme park. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Hong Kong and by the end of the trip I was disappointed to be leaving. However, a word of caution [...]
Forget the bouquet from the petrol station or the discounted chocolates leftover from Valentine’s Day. Make 2013 the year you really spoil mum. In homage to mums across the United Kingdom, My Destination has compiled a list of the 5 best places to visit this Mothering Sunday. Whether she is a lover of all things [...]
Many people have heard of Pripyat in the Ukraine, a town evacuated following the nuclear fall-out from the Chernobyl plant disaster in 1986 and left abandoned ever since. However, it is not the only lonely town. All over the world there are desolate places left to decay, varying between individual houses and whole towns. So [...]
Cornwall evokes images of cobbled streets, fisherman’s cottages, scones with cream and jam (or is it the other way round…) and cliff-top scenery that makes me more proud to hail from our little island than any Royal Wedding. Yet, however much Cornwall has going for it, no one would surely consider it as a great [...]
Slovenia is the unspoken European gem, think the Sound Of Music or the front of an Alpen cereal box and you are already half way there. But unlike its more Western counterparts, Slovenia is still un-trodden by the tourist masses, undiscovered and completely serene. A trip to Slovenia should be on the cards for everyone [...]
Forget Penelope Pitstop and Dick Dastardly, these are the world’s wackiest races and the stars of the show are definitely not human. Our four legged friends from across the globe are being trained up and sent out to win prizes. But do not be fooled, this is no Crufts. This isn’t even horse racing. Here is [...]
Many people relish the prospect of a Christmas away from home. Abandoning the stress of cooking a bird that is bigger than the oven, facing Oxford Street on Christmas Eve or just having to visit their mother-in-law. However, there are others who would love to be able to come home for the occasion but are [...]
On an overcast Wednesday in October, just days after the end of British Summer Time, I did not expect to be braving the elements on a boat. However in the interest of journalism, and that I was able to peer into the prestigious back gardens of houses in Primrose Hill, I found myself aboard Jason’s [...]
Brazil recently played host to none other than the gallant knight of British television, Michael Palin. The subject of localness, much discussed in blogging and backpacking realms, came up in an interview with Palin as he reflected on his trip. He admitted that given the size of Brazil (the distance between London and Nigeria) he [...]
Has anyone asked you to carry anything aboard this aircraft? Well my girlfriend. Did you pack your bags yourself? No my mum did… In our modern society with terror threats and constant review of security procedures, most travellers consider this an endurance test rather than first class luxury. Here we examine and probe the items that [...]
Budapest is a city where a deadly hangover does not bring a halt to the proceedings. It is not your indicator to flee to the nearest McDonalds and spend the rest of the day lying in suffocating heat in the hostel, desperately wondering how your camera ended up under a bus. Hungary’s capital is fully [...]
We know that journeying from place to place can sometimes take a while, and calls of ‘Are we there yet?’ can be somewhat distracting. In light of this we’ve come
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Music and travel go together like jelly and ice-cream. One without the other is sweet enough to satiate your taste buds, but when the two collide, something magical happens… Whether
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Our mission: to enrich travel experiences through local expertise Our network has 73 destinations with 53 coming soon… Locally informed, globally inspired My Destination is your supply of global
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