Riding across Northwestern Spain on local trains is the slow way to travel. Eighty-nine stops. across Spain.
Well, eighty-eight actually since boarding the little railways of northern Spain at Hendaye, but the past days have proved to be most instructive. …
Suffice it to say that the Faroe Islands, wonderful in the summer and fall, have a charm throughout the winter, even when the weather may be at its more dramatic, and the days draw short. By December, the sun …
I have to start by saying that I am not given to hyperbole. Understatement may not be my strongest suit, but I try to stay pretty close to the truth, and having said this, I need to explain a lifelong …
Here’s a funny thing.
The medical centre on this ship is on Deck 1, the lowest platform of the vessel. It is a funny deck, being home to pallets of vegetables, bits of engine, …
Buffets on board ships are terrific places to observe eccentricity at play, and the Queen Mary is no exception.
Unleashed from the constraints of conventional food-pairing, buffet-grazers are …
Just when you think that you have these islands sussed, a headline such as this will appear, and abb another quirk into the fabric that these naugha-Viking islands weave.
The Faroe Islands are a touch odd; it is their very …
Well, I have been here for twenty-four hours, and that added to the collective wisdom garnered on three previous visits, I feel, bestows expert status.
I can assert with little doubt that the weather in the Faroe Islands is not …
Naujaat is a small community in Nunavut, lying on the shore of Repulse Bay, and sitting astride the Arctic Circle
I am, it has to be said, fortunate in the amount that I am …
Tbilisi is always interesting, and my all-too-brief stay there last week once more conjured up some surprises and ideas. It always does, and suffice it to say that were I to decamp and move to Georgia, a thought that has …