Venice is one of those destinations which sat loftily on a grand cerebral column. But reports of it being an overcrowded tourist destination (regularly lumped in with Barcelona and Dubrovnik) had made us wary that it might be just another dreamy bubble waiting to be burst. […]
A multi-faceted route above Gosausee near Hallstatt in Austria. It’s an area of outstanding natural beauty, featuring immaculate pastures, glassy lakes and the rugged, rocky Dachstein mountains. […]
Some restaurants now prohibit diners from photographing food. Personally I’d say “sayonara” to any restaurant which tried to pull that one on me. […]
To cast a net around the definition of Slow Travel and reel it into the one sentence; it’s about interacting with the authentic face of the destination you happen to be visiting. […]
Lisbon is as fascinating and enchanting a city when night fell as it is during the hours of light; from the raw energy of Bairro Alto to the elegance of its plazas… […]
Endless plains devoid of flora generally leave me cold. Shaven hills look sad and apocalyptic. As for a landscape where rain is a rare visitor; hell on earth. […]
Despite the Canary Islands occupying a position in the Atlantic to the left of North Africa and the Sahara Desert, this European north/south picture is often… […]
Provence did not disappoint. She may have lost her lavender and sunflowers for another year but all that served to do was to focus the attention on the beauty that lies beyond her seasonal glories. […]
“The dangers of Alpine travel may be divided into two classes, the real and the imaginary, and in the retrospect it was found that ours all belonged to the latter.”
Miss Jemima’s Journal 1863 […]
The World Travel Market is a huge shrine to the best of the world’s destinations with wonders and surprises around every corner. […]
Mad, bad and dangerous to know. That’s what I thought about Glasgow growing up ‘doon the water’ in Rothesay. It always felt as though there was an undercurrent of violence simmering just beneath the surface… […]
There is beauty in the beast. It might not always be obvious but it is there in the twinkling neon reflections in an oil stained puddle at the kerb or in the soot blackened red bricks of old industrial factories whose… […]
I’m a big fan of chorizos – I love to see them hanging from the ceiling in food shops and atmospheric tapas bars. I like them even better when they’re in my mouth having been fried in savoury stews, served sliced with Manchego cheese… […]
A man stands alone on a rock in the middle of the night whilst restless Atlantic rollers swirl and crash around his feet, threatening to sweep him away. This mysterious figure has an air of a latter day King Canute about him but what the hell was he doing there? […]
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