Pat Hindley, Author at TRAVEL COCKTAIL

Discovering the real Downton Abbey

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[…]

Visiting Berlin today it’s hard to believe that less than 30 years ago it was a city divided by a[…]

On our second morning in Bruges I was surprised to hear my friend say that according to the guide book,[…]