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

Hidden Dubai: Beyond the Burj Khalifa

With its stunningly luxurious hotels, world class shopping centres and endless entertainment, there’s no doubt that Dubai is one of the most desirable tourist destinations in the world. And while many visitors will be shooting straight up to the top…

6 Things to Do on a Short Break in London

Whether you are local to the UK or an international visitor, London is the perfect place to explore on a short city break.  There is plenty to keep you occupied, plenty to see and do and the only difficulty you…

30 Places Before 30

We’ve been thinking recently about bucket lists and the things that you need to see during your life. And then that got us thinking, which places should people see before they turn 30? We put our heads together and came…

Ways to defeat jet lag

  Image (c) Steve Craft/Corbis Until a few years ago I’d never suffered jet lag as most of the long flights I had taken were north-south. That all changed with my first trip to the good old US of A,…

Twenty-First Century Travelling

Travelling is an ever-present in the history of earth and human-kind. Fossils have lead us to believe that the Homo Erectus saw fit to travel out of Africa and colonise other parts of the world some 150,000 years ago; Christopher…

Trade the Car for a Train on Your next U.S. Trip

Life isn’t a movie, and gas doesn’t just magically appear in your car’s tank. Even though movie road trips may cost next to nothing (when in reality they should have costed $275,000), unfortunately, if you were to attempt a road…

Entertainment near the Montcalm Hotels

London is an exciting and vibrant city to explore and whether you have been a handful of times or are a first time visitor looking for things to do, you will soon discover that London has plenty to offer. Most…