As is frequently the case when we are planning and undertaking these mammoth buying trips, things do not go according to plan! This time...

I cannot quite believe it’s been a year since I last posted this blog; the trip I was about to embark on did not go according to...

Arriving in the murky, wet greyness of a hot and steamy Sunday evening in Dhaka, my senses are as usual, assaulted by the sights, sounds...

Well, that was one hell of a trip! It started with an early morning departure from Heathrow, travelling with three of my colleagues,...

What I really needed was some time out to recharge my very lacklustre batteries, so a few days off in the run up to Easter was a very...

It’s been a while since my last post (this sounds like I am about to confess my sins, which I am not!), and a great deal has happened...

Arriving in Delhi in the early hours of Wednesday morning, we bunch of weary travellers were greeted by the stifling heat and a missing...

Leaving home on Sunday afternoon, I had a very odd feeling that this was going to be an eventful trip; if only I’d known just how...

We had just over a week to recover from the exertions of Bangladesh, and then we were off again, this time further afield, to Hong Kong,...

Leaving home at 5.30am on Sunday morning, to meet the buyer and designer travelling with me at the airport, I was clear in the knowledge...

Yet again, just when we think we’re making great strides forward, catastrophe strikes! This time in the form of a key supplier who has...