Babcia and I went on a beach holiday to Cuba. No one else wanted to or could come. How perfect to spend a lush eleven days with a person who has lived so many lives, experienced things I could not fathom, and raised my mother. Because of the proximity to the beach and the right […]
Category: Destinations
Genoa, Italy
I love cities where laundry hangs from the windows, or is neatly folded over sagging lines across alleyways. It’s a living city. Full of real people. It’s not made pretty for tourists although I think drying laundry is the prettiest sight. Hanging laundry is one of the first sights I get in the city, […]
Back to London
I remember when I first arrived in London on a chilly February afternoon in 2008 for a working-holiday. I intended to stay for 6 months, have a serious think about what I wanted to do with my life while working a host of jobs through employment agencies. I was also to travel and find myself. […]
Public Footpaths – The most wonderful thing about the UK
The thing I love most, and miss the most about the UK, are its public footpaths. I don’t know if this is true, but it seems to me that all parts of the United Kingdom (bar a few ferry rides) are connected by public footpaths. Paths that cross public and private land. Paths that traverse […]
Iceland: The North
Heading further west along the northern part of Iceland, the land changes from grey to rolling burnt orange, yellow, and grey. This is Iceland’s active volcano region where the earth occasionally bubbles and explodes in plumes of smoke. The air smells like boiled egg. Some might say it reeks, this stench, but this smell has […]
Iceland: Eastern Fjords and Northern Cosmic Landscapes
It is a gloomy morning. Cold. Cloudy. Gray. I can smell rain. I see it coming. But this is to be expected, and weather in Iceland stops no man. It’s a short drive from the campground to Seyðisfjörður, a harbour village nestled in Iceland’s eastern fjords. The road from Egilsstaðir to Seyðisfjörður first steeply winds […]
Iceland’s Southern Shores: Black Sand Beaches, Glaciers and Icebergs
Just east of Vik is the incredible Reynisfjall, a massive ridge rising high from the sea’s edge, stacked in hexagonal basalt columns, grazed at its bottom by a black beach. The pebbles on the beach are edgy, sharp and heavy. They shine beautifully in the sun. Standing at the beach and looking west, we see […]
Iceland: The Wonders of the Golden Circle
The Golden Circle is a 100km tourist loop to the east of Reykjavik. The many advertisements for tours to visit the route are a little concerning – we don’t usually like to travel to the places where parking lots are going to be filled with buses, but we have our own car, and can drive […]