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Indian is one my favourite types of cuisine but, during the couple of times I visited, I didn’t get many opportunities to try the wonderful variety of Indian street food available throughout the country. Next time I visit India I plan to put that right and, to point me in the right direction, my fellow [...]

Last month in a small village hall in West Sussex I met some inspiring people - Rachel Nassif, from the Help Palestine Community Co-operative, Rosemary Moon, a wonderful cookery writer and Fair Trade advocate, Manal Abdallah from Canaan Fair Trade and Abu Rafat Odeh al Qadi a farmer from Palestine. Sometimes you don’t have to travel far from home [...]

Last Thursday, as I sat in a plush red velvet seat at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), I looked at the screen as the camera panned out from Senna’s home. Hundreds of rickety little homes, just like Senna’s came into view, followed by hundreds more, all clinging to the mountainside of a bleak [...]

For thousands of years the women of Africa have known the secret to beautiful skin! The karite tree, known as ‘women’s gold’, grows throughout the savannah regions of West Africa. From its nuts comes shea butter, which they use by to protect and moisturise their skin. It actually encourages the skin to absorb moisture from [...]

As discussed in my previous post the current political events in the Middle East have adversely affected the tourism industry throughout the region. I recently visited Destinations Holiday and Travel Show in London and spoke to award-winning travel journalist, Matthew Teller, before his talk ‘Jordan & its neighbours: reshaping Middle East tourism’. In what I [...]

In one of my posts last year I told you about the wildlife in The Gambia and how I once found myself stroking a crocodile. That led me to thinking about other foolish things I’ve done while traveling so here is the tale of another misadventure. Dinner with the Raj One evening, while touring Tamil Nadu [...]

As you may already know if you have been following my blog for a while I have a personal interest in China even though I have never been there. Tara, who I got to know on Twitter, works for a company that organises private day trips in a number of destinations including China. She has [...]

I’m delighted to host another guest post, this time from former broadcast journalist, Anisha Shah, about meeting the Bedouins in Jordan in the Middle East. Getting to Know Jordan’s Bedouins Jordan‘s Bedouin people are great story-tellers! They’re keen to help you experience their lands through their eyes – and I say, what better way? With [...]

I was happy to oblige when Shalu, from ShaluSharma.com, a colourful blog all about India, asked me to take part in a series of interviews with travellers to India. It brought back many happy memories which I’d like to share with you. Shalu: When did you visit India and which parts of India did you [...]

Today I’d like to welcome the first author from a new series of guest articles on Travel With Kat. So let me introduce, Agness, from Poland. Together with her friend Cez, she writes a blog I really love eTramping. I hope you will make her feel at home. A mini guide to Sri Lankan street [...]