Abandoned towns and villages can be found all over the world. But there’s something especially haunting and charismatic both about the remnants of settlements that photogenically preserve the look...
A fortunate few cities have the luxury of being identified with an internationally famous artist who inevitably ends up being an ambassador of sorts for his or her home town. Colombia's...
The southernmost of the Cycladic Islands of the Aegean Sea – perhaps best known as the source of the Louvre’s immortal Venus de Milo – Milos’ most authentic and...
How many cities in Sweden – or for that matter, anywhere in Scandinavia – can you name outside the country's capital? For many of us, the answer is few...
There is nothing quite like the massive Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro – the over-the-top extravagance; hundreds of thousands of raucous Brazilians thronging the streets and the Sambodrome; and...
The north of Spain is known for its green, mystical lands, imbued with its ancestral past and singularly lovely landscapes - especially along its coast. There's no better example than...
In my various travels, few times have I returned as impressed by a destination as from Chile, leaving me determined to go back again and again. Because this is...
One of my earliest memories of Spain - lo, these many years ago - was jumping a high school trip in Andalusia to visit (with permission of all concerned, of course)...
When it comes to canals in Italy, Venice pretty understandably gets almost all the love. But southeast of Milan's city centre one of the city's most atmospheric districts derives no small part of...