It’s around 3100BC. You are standing in the middle of a large clearing in a vast forest in South-West Anglia (or maybe it already was a wind

Yep, Rovinj is a gem, a hill top town on a peninsula jutting into the Adriatic, full of tangled, cobble-stoned narrow streets

Travel story of Edinburgh highlights, festivals, castles, palaces, witches and more.

It’s cosmopolitan, it’s boisterous, it’s tranquil, it’s corrupt, it’s beautiful, it’s so cool. it’s one of the greatest cities in the...

What is a well-known city on the world that is slowly sinking into the sea and is, in fact, surrounded by its own lagoon? Right, well,...

The first thing to note is that there are, in fact, NO pigeons on Pigeon Cay. Gulls yes, pigeons, no. So with that having been...

Because Bruges is a small and quaint and charming and historic city with a fairy tale vibe. Swans on the canals, a maze of medieval...

For inveterate castle-hunters like myself, well, you can imagine what a treasure trove the Loire valley is. From ancient mighty...

Naturally, the iconic picture of Budapest is the Parliament Building, finished, sort of, in 1896, on the 1000th anniversary of the...

There have been soooo many travel stories about Rome, my take will be to barely touch on the famous, kinda, and dwell on Rome’s...

This post will be different, heavy on pictures, as they tell a thousand words, and less on…well…words, well a few words anyway. The thing...

It’s the light. You can feel it, you can see it, you can almost smell it, and if you pass a lavender farm, you know you’re in Provence -...

And now, for a complete change of ‘pace’, we decided to walk several sections of Scotland’s Fife Coastal Path, since Vicky is from...

What? The inspiration for the elvish city of Rivendell in JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit? If you have seen the movie or read the book (perhaps...

Ah, Tuscany… vineyards, olive groves, hill-top towns, Florence, pizza, Sienna, pasta, Volterra, la bella vita… we came for all of this…...

z So, did you know that Salzburg became wealthy because of one indispensable and highly prized item in the Middle Ages and well before...

Sure, sure, sun, sand, surf…any more s’s? Oh yes, beaches aplenty, and you can laze around if that’s your wish, but you could do that in...

Largest thermal spa lake in Europe The first reaction to Lake Héviz that I recall was from my grand-daughter, Maddie, who asked: “Grampa,...

Most people go to the Mayan Riviera for sun, sand and surf… for those who wish for unspoiled beaches, beautiful lagoons with great...

OK, so they are not so long as The West Highland Way nor Shakespeare’s Way, but the views are outstanding. Last stop before Italy is the...