I’ve grappled with the idea of starting a blog for years now – partly because I’m afraid I won’t have anything original or witty to say and partly because it seems so many bloggers morph into self-aggrandising, gratuitous selfie-taking monsters. Not to mention, half the computer-literate world seems to be a blogger now.

But here I find myself, after years of family, friends, or vague acquaintances asking for travel advice and recipe ideas and remarking, “You really ought to start a blog with this stuff”. I’ll give it a go and see where it takes me.