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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Borderlands are edgy, interesting and unique places.
They are locations where cultures collide, languages meld, economies spill into each other, and the …
The Aleutian Islands are distant, remote and fascinating; Adak, being the island farthest west that is actually inhabited, is of particular interest to map-gazers and travellers.
Frequent Flyer miles are addictive, and often propel …