The Gulf rarely springs to mind when deciding on a winter getaway; at least not from Canada or the USA.
Dubai, of course, has long been a magnet for tourists from Europe, and increasing access from North America is …
The Queen Mary
There are a lot of ways to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and over the past decades I have tried most of them. There are fast ways, Concorde crossed in approximately three hours, twice a day for years, …
Imagine having a week or so off and nowhere in mind to go. Buenos Aires and Asuncion may not be at the top of mind, but, as a North American, Europe …
I, like most travellers, am often asked where my favourite place is, and like most travellers find the question hard to answer. Parsma, in Tusheti, is a hard act to follow.
Criteria are difficult. Is it for the culture? The …
Remote areas are often overlooked, underestimated or simply ignored. Many of us will have, on the way to or from Europe, cast a glance at the flight map and seen the groups of islands they lie …
It is ten years today since I departed from Cape Town on the RMS St. Helena, one of the world’s last working Royal Mail ships, for the six-day run to the remote …
Of all the many modes of travel, perhaps the most evocative is the sleeper train. Travelling through the night over hundreds of miles, ensconced in a comfortable cabin can be the epitome of a travel …
I like travelling to unusual places: Turkmenistan, Mauritania, North Korea – all sorts of odd places. But this time, I felt it time to continue my exploration of The Balkans with a …
Mexico City is simply a wonderful place to visit. But few do.
It is one of those destinations that, through media coverage and staring at atlases at school, we think that we know. We have …