by Janet Matricciani | Feb 22, 2023 | Blog, Janet Matricciani, Travel
As someone with a love of theatre, art and country music, it was with trepidation that I learned my husband had booked our family into an AirBnB house in the province of Puntarena, Costa Rica’s most southern and isolated part, for a week over the Christmas...
by Janet Matricciani | Feb 22, 2023 | Blog, Janet Matricciani, Travel
Is it St. Maartens, as the Dutch call it, or St. Martin as per the French the island has changed hands so many times, it is hard to know what to say for your final destination as you board the plane. Half the island is Dutch and half French. The Dutch have the...
by Janet Matricciani | Feb 15, 2023 | Blog, Janet Matricciani, Travel
I wouldn’t like to be stuck in a minefield after dark without a map, native guide or bomb detection kit, but that is exactly the position I found myself in on the twenty-fifth of August last year. I had been travelling overland from London to Africa with a...
by Janet Matricciani | Feb 15, 2023 | Blog, Janet Matricciani, Travel
What really made this a great holiday for us was the hotel, the Hyatt Regency on the Santa Barbara plantation in Nieuwpoort, on the south-eastern tip of the island. Well, what else would you expect from an island where, bang in the centre, there is a great big oil...
by Janet Matricciani | Feb 10, 2023 | Blog, Janet Matricciani, Travel
It was with some trepidation that I took my son to Finland for a week. We were not going North to Lapland to visit Santa (who he still thinks is real, I am pleased to say, at the grand old age of seven) as it was too far from our base in Helsinki. I had some initial...
by Janet Matricciani | Feb 3, 2023 | Blog, Janet Matricciani, Travel
“We will not walk anymore, I am tired. Tomorrow, we will drive,” declared Mohammed suddenly. His announcement surprised me, not because he was fourteen and had never driven a car in his life, but because we had been trekking for three days and were now in a deep...
