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

7 Things To Carry To Make Travel Better And More Fun

Photo credit: Roxanne Milward Onehundred and ninetyeight via photopin (license) Planning a vacation and visiting a place you dreamed of for a long time is not only about booking a hotel and plane tickets. Every experienced traveller knows the main…

A One-Stop Shop For Cheaper Travel

(Image Source) A lot of people avoid traveling because of the cost involved with going round the world. Unfortunately, this leaves a lot of people in the position where they have never traveled at all. And, in later life; this…

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,…