“I love Barcelona”, we hear all the time, but here’s the thing. You travel for a vacation, pick your destinations carefully, research the sights, restaurants, walks and gradually paint a picture of your perfect stay in the world’s most interesting and desirable cities. And then you arrive, and find […]
The Scottish Highlands and Orkney make a marvellous combination for the independent traveller Some destinations are boring, some become boring and others have complete tediousness thrust upon them. Sadly, increasing numbers of “tourist destinations” are falling into the spectrum of tedium as vastly increasing numbers of tourists descend upon them […]
Richard Quest, one of my favourite business and travel commentators, is about to embark on a fascinating experiment. He is travelling around the world using only low-cost carriers. I thought that it would be an interesting exercise to see just how much this would cost originating in Toronto, and using […]
Arctic Canada Arctic Canada may not be on everybody’s winter travel list. However, visiting communities like Qikiqtarjuaq on Baffin Island, or Yellowknife, the relatively metropolitan capital of the Northwest Territories, really does offer an extraordinary glimpse into another world. A world and a rich culture that has been evolving slowly […]
The Guyanas It is hard to know where to start really, when describing the Guyanas. Most folks don’t know where they are, and those that do have only a fleeting memory of school geography, or perhaps collecting stamps. The Three “Guyanas” lie on the northeast coast of South America. They […]
It is reassuring to know Manari Ranch exists. Our world seems to travel too fast, as we stumble from one crisis to another, each event often caused by the sheer speed to which we have accelerated our lives. We look to media all day, reflect upon it rarely and act […]
Let me introduce Peter Joseph, an Amerindian from St. Ignatius in the Rupununi. Peter is an Amerindian, and lives in St. Ignatius, a settlement of 2,000 folks living adjacent to the Guyanese community of Lethem. The village, home to both the Makushi and the Wapishana people was officially settled in […]
By the time that I was finally faced with an armed man demanding money, I laughed; it had been that kind of day. Up early to drive 650kms south from Puerto Ordaz to the border town of Santa Elena de Uairen, we set off in a reasonably jolly mood, tempered […]
Travelling to Guyana via Panama with COPA may not seem to be logical, but then again, nor are travel junkies. Here’s the thing. When one is a points junkie like me, travel routings become secondary to the availability of the elusive redemption seats. Coupled with my interests in travelling to […]