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 beaches? The entertainment? Are you talking about the winter, the […]
The Wild Atlantic Islands 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 between Scotland and Iceland, and even wondered, fleetingly, what goes […]
St. Helena – A very, very distant land 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 island of St. Helena. I like remote and unusual places, […]
The Luxury of a Sleeper 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 dream. Or the setting for a murder mystery. Dining in […]
North Macedonia – a fascinating find! 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 look at one of the more quiet countries in the region, North […]
Who goes to Mexico City? 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 all hear of the country, Mexico, and by extension we assume […]
I simply love Georgia – the country, not the US state, although the Peachtree State does have its charms as well. And others do too. Since my first visit in 2006, tourist arrivals have shot up from 980,000 to over 7 million in 2019, and now it is your turn […]
Edinburgh is pretty, and it knows it. Like those infuriating teenagers bestowed with the best looks, Edinburgh preens and lies in the occasional sunshine smiling at everyone who cares to pass. It is truly a wonderful city, and a city for both the jaded traveller and the excited novice. It […]
Cities are curious places, particularly those big and famous enough for us all to believe that we know them, even before we have visited. We know them from photographs of their monuments and streets; from television programs and books, and from years of knowing that London, Paris, New York and […]