Expert travel advice and tailor made travel itineraries
Follow Peter J Smith on Twitter Follow me on Twitter Take a look at my travelblog View the travelblog
Top Tips
Featured Articles
Destinations
Thanks for visting the web site.

Take a look around and feel free to make a comments or suggestions and, of course, if you like the content please tell your friends! The articles below are links through to the travel blog, which you can also click through to from the main menu above. For travel planning; right now you will need to send me an email regarding the trip or use the form on the contact page.

I will shortly have the full drop down selection menu ready for ease of use, in the meantime however contact me in whatever way works for you. Happy travelling.

Peter J Smith

Latest travel news and Comment
Lagos, Portugal Lagos, Portugal a perfect spring break!

Lagos is like a magnet for me, I try to get here at least once a year. In springtime the air is fresh, the sun is warm and there are few tourists to contend with. Don't go in the water though! It is freezing cold most of the year and a dip in ocean in April will certainly give you a jolt.

This year I decided to cheat a little and took the Brittany Ferries Pont-Aven from Portsmouth to Santander in Spain to ease the work load on both myself and the faithful truck I was driving down in. This was a great idea as it saved over 900 miles of driving through France and worked out cheaper.

From Santander the most straight forward route is to pass by Valladolid and Salamanca then on into portugal taking the wide and swift motorway...more

Budget airlines; are they worth the hassle Budget airlines, are they worth the hassle?

You see the advert on the Internet or in a Sunday newspaper; the flight is next to nothing and is just where you would like to go, but what about the small print?

Extras such as baggage, a necessity I have always thought, check in desks, free toilets on board, charges for emergency oxygen when the masks drop from the ceiling! Ok I am being a...more

New Friends, Lagos Portugal New Friends, Lagos Portugal

One of the things I associate Lagos with is a good barbeque! Nothing better than a few new friends sitting around a Barbie with a drink and discussing the places they have been to and have yet to visit

The Lagos Youth Hostel has been around for over a decade now and has seen thousands of travellers pass through its doors. The spacious central courtyard and adjoining kitchen make for easy social...more

Isla Mujeres Isla Mujeres, Paradise Found
Isla Mujeres, the Island of women its literal translation, is a gem of island in the cheap end of the Caribbean.

I have been coming here for a few years now and, although each year sees its changes, it still retains an even balance between a laid back island and the necessity to cater for a growing tourist industry...more

The Blue Hole A scuba dream! Diving the famous Blue Hole off of Belize

Ok it's dive time now. I have come halfway around the world for this trip and I am finally going to dive the blue hole!

For those of you not familiar with this dive site, it is a collapsed limestone cave about two and a half hours from Ambergris Caye off the coast of Belize...more

Amigos Hostel in Guatemala Ticket to Ride, a journey from the islands of Belize to Tikal in Guatemala
"You can't sit there all week" said the Belizean owner of the hostel "I don't know" I said, " I have a bottle of coconut rum and loads of ice, I don't really see the problem"

I looked over her shoulder towards the water and the horizon; dark clouds were scudding nearer by the hour. Perhaps she had a point after all...more

Cotswolds England, my England

Take one Englishman and an American, shake slightly in a old car add a dash of bitter and take to the English countryside for a spring weekend.

A whistlestop tour of some great sights in the Home Counties was on the cards, with only a few days to get the best sights in it was a race...more

Do it yourself: Book tickets, Hotels and Hostels online On its way!
© 2009-10 all rights reserved :: Peter J Smith