Travel

Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is the largest island on North America’s west coast, has Canada’s mildest climate, a rugged chain of mountains rising to 2,200m and bounteous wildlife including [...]

The Sunshine Coast || Part 1 Tucked into the southwest corner of British Columbia is a stretch of paradise known as the Sunshine Coast. It is reached from West Vancouver by a 40-minute ferry ride [...]

Helga and I were in San Diego at the beginning of January and I had the unique opportunity of touring “The Wall” with Scott Williams, my nephew-in-law and a Border Patrol Officer working on the [...]

Discovering the Tarns One November day in 1959, two men shivering in a bitingly cold shower of hail, scrambled out of a Lake District tarn near Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain. They had [...]

The Lakes and their Literary Landscape The Lake District, a mountainous area in NW England, is often known as Lakeland or just ‘The Lakes’. It is England’s largest National Park, and a popular [...]

“Do you play golf?” asked the receptionist as we arrived at the Kiri Maya Golf Resort in Northern Thailand. We replied that we wanted to explore nearby Khao Yai National Park and we had no plans [...]

Helga and I have just seen one of the most incredible modern architectural sights in the world! We decided to take a long weekend and go somewhere in Spain we hadn’t been before – Valencia. The [...]

Vancouver just doesn’t need to try! The Pacific Ocean stretches in front and snow-capped mountains rear seductively behind. In between lies perhaps the world’s most liveable city, replete with [...]

The Rakhine People and Sittwe Rakhine State, one of the least visited parts of Myanmar, lies on the country’s west coast on the Bay of Bengal, with the Bangladesh border to the north. The [...]

When I was in my 20s and living on Long Island Sound (a wonderful small boat sailing area near New York City), I had an O’Day Mariner and spent many weekends sailing, often overnight. My dream [...]