2010 marked my 9th year of photographing the fabulous Rio Carnival, the highlight of my calendar. The only downside is I took 8000 photos – I’m beginning to think I might have an illness! I hope there are one or 2 good shots within that...

It’s fair to say that since August, when a lone gun-man shot dead two young gay lads and injured 10 others in Tel Aviv, which led to a temporary closure of the cities gay nightlife, Israel is seen as a homophobic and violent place to visit...

As the temperature drops and the thought of cold dark nights loom, Bryan Herb wants you to think about Chicago for your next summer vacation. It’s the place rapid becoming a surprisingly new gay playground for our American cousins… and he’d like us Brits to come and join them...

Role over Rhodes and make way Mykonos! Adrian Gillan hits Crete – birthplace of Zeus; and the Minotaur! By far Greece’s largest island, covering 3,200 square miles, Crete lies just 125 miles north of the African coast, with a resident population of around 700,000...

Toronto is the capital of Ontario and the biggest city by population in Canada. Located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, it has 2.5 million residents and is a leading financial centre in the global market...

Halloween is a special time in any Torontonian’s calendar. Rather than celebrate on just one night, like we do, they instead throw a whole week of celebrations: Halloweek. This year, festivities were wide and varied, held outdoors and indoors...

Loved Lanzarote? Tried Tenerife? Done Gran Can? Adrian Gillan samples that other volcanic Atlantic Spanish island idyll off the African coast: glorious Fuerteventura! It might not...

Few capital cities can regard themselves as on a par with Bangkok. Thailand’s main urban centre is simply excess in all of its unrestrained glory. Bigger, better, more; the city is...

Pattaya is Thailand's main beach resort town, about 2 hours drive southeast of Bangkok on the Gulf of Thailand, and one & half hours from the International Airport. It is a big, bustling town with tourists and resident ex-pats from all over the world...

The Cape Cadogan Boutique Hotel Overall impression This small family owned luxury property located in the heart of Cape Town was a jewel. Renovated from a home that had fallen into hard times, the property was carefully spruced up and decorated to accent its assets...