With Japan postponed and two empty-ish weeks stretching before us, we’ve escaped to warmer climes 🏝

This really is an ideal situation 😻🏝

Soaking up the sunshine on what feels like might be the last trip for a while – grateful to have escaped, hopeful that we’ll be allowed back into London 🙏🏻 (half joking; news from the front is bleak!)

Fun wordy fact of the day for kids: the first freelancers were knights who weren’t attached to any single lord and master, and so were *free* to use their *lances*, or weapons, for anyone who paid them. #homeschooling

The April issue of Cruise Adviser is out now, featuring the latest news, comment and analysis amid the coronavirus pandemic – plus, most importantly, a celebration of this wonderful industry. Read it here: cruise-adviser.com/category/cruis…

It’s somehow taken six years but this weekend I discovered the ultimate rooftop chill spot at our flat. Now accepting commissions for “travelling around the home” features with a rooftop angle

#ThanksToTravel: Sweaty palms on moped handlebars, sipping beer in the shade of Laos’ mountains, white-water rafting with my parents (they abstained from cliff jumping), backpacking when work is quiet. Here’s to a return to street food and €1 wine, for work and absolute pleasure

The state-mandated walks have really been delivering 🌳🌿🌲

Lots of libraries are now online due to Covid-19 with ++resources on systemic racism. If you can afford to, donate the cost of a book to #BlackLivesMatter. Or watch this for free; ad revenue goes to orgs fighting the good fight youtu.be/bCgLa25fDHM. Non-fiction recs Jane Mount

It was such a pleasure to write for Paula Richmond's The Conscious Traveler, a new digital mag on hotels and destinations working for positive change. I covered 1 Hotels Brooklyn Bridge, a hotel imagined as an extension of the park next door rethink.travel/1hotels-brookl…

An Italian escape with Riviera Travel and @ABTAMagazine has been the perfect tonic after months at home. The tourist spots remain relatively quiet and the collective mood is so much calmer than in the UK. Europe, I’ve missed you! 💙🇮🇹

The Grand Canal: deserted (you can get an absolute bargain on gondola rides right now) 🇮🇹

I know it’s been said before, but Venice without the crowds is such a treat. The queue for St Mark’s Basilica was fewer than 10 deep – likewise for the Campanile. And the canals really are clearer! Riviera Travel @ABTAMagazine

I’ve been so lucky to get away with Riviera Travel and @ABTAMagazine. New faces, other places, fresh pasta (!) – a reminder of all we took for granted pre-Covid. If you can travel, do; the industry has worked so hard to make it as safe and enjoyable as ever

90,000 jobs already lost/at risk,only 6 countries without restrictions – the UK travel industry is collapsing in front of your eyes Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps. Enough is enough. Where is the sector specific support? The airport testing? Why won’t you #SaveTravel? #SaveFutureTravel #Test4Travel

The new digital mag looks SO good 👏🏼 New tours, the latest travel news + updates on cruise. And I may be biased, but the Italy/Riviera Travel feature is looking especially great 💫

Out now: the relaunch issue of Cruise Adviser, the first in a new interactive format magazine.cruise-adviser.com/editions/novem…

The January 2021 issue of Cruise Adviser is out now. In it, leading figures from the industry – including Tony Roberts, Lynn Narraway and @AntonyParadiso – answer the question, 'Where next for cruise?' Read it here: magazine.cruise-adviser.com/editions/janua…

G7 #Germany: The #Elmau Summit background book is out now! View the publication online at bit.ly/g7elmau @g7rg John Kirton Madeline Koch