The sun is finally shining and everybody’s gossiping about their summertime plans. Of paramount concern, of course, is where you’re going on holiday this year. With so many options, you won’t be stuck for something to do, that’s for sure! Here are TOTR’s list of travelling suggestions for summer 2013… Go backpacking, hitchhiking and/or couchsurfing [...]

With Father’s Day just around the corner, we’re racking our brains as we try to find the perfect gift for daddy dearest here at Take on the Road. To help one lucky reader, the generous folks at just4leather.co.uk have teamed up with Prime Hide to offer a competition. The prize? A luxury leather wallet, fit only [...]

Last week the lovely Jay Leighton paid us a visit in Norwich to launch his new album ‘Hours’. The first single from the album is called ‘Wish I Was Springsteen’ and you can hear it below. We started off the day by heading to BBC Norfolk for a live radio session with the legendary Stephen [...]

The next morning, we wake up early and eat a big breakfast of dates, olives, flat breads and cheese. We’ve just about finished when a sandstorm begins to whip up around us. The Berber gentlemen who look after the camp wrap their headscarves tight around themselves and carry on about their day. We say goodbye [...]

We drive for hours and hours through uneven terrains. Roads are built into the sides of sandy cliffs and nothing but desert stretches out for miles all around us. When it gets to the point where we have to drive off-road and directly through the sand, our driver turns the air conditioning system off so [...]

We rise early in the morning on our first day and enjoy a Moroccan breakfast, complete with traditional mint tea and talkative little birds flitting about in search of edible scraps. Jamal tells us that Ouarzazate is primarily a Berber town and that its name means ‘without confusion or noise’. We head out soon afterwards, [...]

After being away in China over the Royal Wedding in 2011, it felt distinctly unpatriotic to arrange a trip over the Jubilee Weekend last year. But when dates line up and an opportunity presents itself, sometimes you just have to go with the flow. It was this philosophy that saw me trekking through the Moroccan [...]

I’ve been stuck in the university library for days revising for my final exams this past week, and I can’t stop daydreaming about all the delicious meals I’ll be creating when the studying is finally over. In that vein, here are my favourite kitchen gadgets to get you inspired too… Tefal Steamer from Littlewoods I [...]

Everybody’s familiar with that old proverb that mum used to come out with…”Breakfast: it’s the most important meal of the day!” It’s one that many a family member in the Razavi clan has offered throughout my life as justification for a little bit of overfeeding in the AM. However, years of grooming has done nothing for [...]

Regular TOTR readers will know that each month we round up our favourite beauty products of the past four weeks for you to lust over and add to your wishlist. This month, assuming everybody is wanting to shop more and find lovely new things because the weather is so cold (I certainly do), we’re going [...]