Andy Higgs

Andy Higgs

I know what it's like to go from being a crazy backpacker without a care in the world, via being a vaguely sensible parent to being an adventurer once more. In other words, evolving into a Grown-up Traveller.Like everyone else, I love to travel, have visited a lot of countries and all that but my big thing is Africa.I also own and run The Grown-up Travel Company as a travel designer creating personalised African itineraries for experienced adventurers

How to choose your safari travel style

The unpredictability of nature makes a safari holiday one of the trickiest trips to plan. For many, an African safari adventure is a once in a lifetime experience, so of course, you want it to be everything you hoped it…

Visiting Orlando’s theme parks

If you have children (or a still a child at heart) then at some point the idea of visiting theme parks is almost guaranteed to come up in conversation. I actually hadn’t expected it to do so, as I was…

Marmaris – Your Next Turkish Adventure?

Image Credit: Unsplash Turkey is a great holiday destination for tourists and, with a long coastline of beaches, there is plenty to do for families as well as groups of friends. While there are a few popular areas, Marmaris is…

72 Hours in Hong Kong

The Kowloon Peninsula at night – Photo by chiyuen, CC BY-SA 3.0 This former British colony — Hong Kong rejoined the Chinese state government in 1997 — consists of the Kowloon Peninsula and 263 separate islands. A real economic center of…

Cruise Your Way Around The World

Photo credit: thephantomzone2018 MSC – Meraviglia via photopin (license) Who doesn’t dream about seeing the world? Not many of us, that’s for sure. Yet turning dreams into reality is not always easy, and just the idea of planning a world…

Hit the road in Andalucia, Spain

Photo credit: Jose Luis RDS Málaga. La Alcazaba via photopin (license) Introduction Nothing quite beats the freedom of a road trip – with your own transport you can travel as you wish, stopping when and where you want to. If…