Dale Winton, the warm charismatic and genuine presenter of daytime and evening TV has sadly passed away today, he was just 62 – and the cause is yet unknown.  Dale was a wonderful character, who has been little heard of in recent years.  He was best known for ‘Supermarket Sweep’ and was a close friend […]

With many of us travelling these days, what’s the best (and cheapest) way to take your travel money? Buying currency to go overseas can be expensive, unless you know what you’re doing. For one, never, ever, under any circumstances exchange money at an airport, the exchange rates are always abysmal. Touring places like India, Cambodia […]

April 13th is New Years’ eve in Nepal, where the year will be 2075; 57 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar. In the ancient city of Bhaktapur, wooden chariots are dragged through the cobbled stoned streets, surrounded by tens of thousands of onlookers. At night time, the Himalayan capital is lit with candles and, as […]

Just beyond the tourist enclave of Kao San Road, lies a small bar called ‘Jazz Happens’  little more in space than the size of a single decker bus. It reminded me of Sin’e, a tiny bar in New York I used to visit in the 1990’s where, taken by my New York girlfriend at the […]

Black Friday: and with dates set for ‘Black Friday’ sales on the 24th Nov in the UK, in Nepal they have a different perspective, entitled white Friday. Here you set aside all consumerism for the day, and don’t buy anything except for essentials. The day is used to consider carefully your spending habits not just for […]

The lake city of Udaipur in India, occupies a special place on our tour of India. It was the location of Roger Moore’s James Bond movie  ‘Octopussy’ and it’s also a place of exclusive weddings due to its opulent palaces. It was also the location where the cast stayed for the Exotic Marigold Hotel movies. A wedding day […]

Up here in the Himalaya the ‘Hippie Trailers’ are a diminishing breed. These men and women, who embarked on what was known as ‘the Hippie trail’ in the sixties or seventies, arrived in Kathmandu. A small number – known as the ‘Hippie Trailers’ – never left. And now they’re in their 70’s or 80s. How […]

Kathmandu: and the Ministry of Unusual Studies in the Tibetan enclave of Boudhanath has several clinics. One of which is looking into whether the breaking of wind can predict your future. The following is translated from a Tibetan publication – the results of their studies – a kind of lexicon of farts. The study, conducted […]

Whilst other tour operators and backpackers visit the lost jungle city of Angkor by air conditioned bus, with Angel, you’re out in the open, with a fleet of tuk tuks, known locally as remorks, touring the jungle. This allows you to be out all day amongst some magnificent terrain to see Angkor as it really is, rather than […]

Much like the BBC series ‘The Real Exotic Marigold Hotel’ Angel Holidays is creating its own Exotic Marigold Hotel experience, where you’ll have the chance to discover what it’s like to retire in India. For 3 weeks you’ll live in this fascinating country exploring retired life with 12 others. The trip cost is just £2,395 […]