The one thing I knew I had to do on my recent trip to Istanbul was to visit a Turkish bath. I have always regretted not visiting a hammam whilst we were in Marrakech two years ago so I made it my mission and my one “non-negotiable” thing we had to do whilst we were in Turkey. We decided to visit the recently restored Kiliç Ali Paşa Hamami after being impressed with the amount of positive experiences and reviews online. (more…)

Earlier this week I visited the city of Atlanta for the first time – it was also my first visit to the State of Georgia. From this I started wondering how many US states I had actually visited – it turns out not as many as I thought! (more…)