Pat Hindley, Author at TRAVEL COCKTAIL

Ngpali: bliss in the Bay of Bengal

Every morning at around 8.45am a monk walks along the beach holding a fan to shield him from the sun.[…]

As our long tailed motorboat powered down the centre of Inle Lake first thing in the morning it was so[…]

If you’re missing your Downton Abbey fix now the series has finished, then a visit to the real Downton is[…]

As soon as we left the airport and hit the road to Mandalay we saw there was a bigger variety[…]

I’d seen photos of Bagan, one of Myanmar’s many ancient capitals, but it’s impossible for them to do justice or[…]

Like so many big cities Yangon is one of contrast. One minute you’re in the narrow smelly streets of Chinatown,[…]

I love the fact that in the past two years I’ve rediscovered travelling closer to home. Don’t get me wrong,[…]

Being from England, a country where thousands of years of history are charted, I don’t tend to think of the[…]