It is often said that you can’t go back. Places change, people move on, construction obliterates the view that you fell in love with. Change is inevitable, and as our memories of travel are necessarily infrequent, we embody them with powerful emotions. I first visited Sesimbra in 1962. I was […]
Revisiting Uzbekistan: Khiva and Bukhara The Silk Road is an evocative notion, and redolent with imagery. It is, in fact, not a single passage from Europe to China, but a vast network of roads and tracks, cities and waypoints that lubricated the east/west trade of the first fifteen centuries of […]
Air Canada and their wheelchair passengers It wasn’t so much being kicked in the back that bothered me, but Air Canada’s extreme corporate reaction to smother the event and make me feel like an idiot. And to tell the truth, I wasn’t kicked in the back; directly anyway. I had […]
AUG 2026, Paramaribo> South America is unusual and oddly surprising, and Suriname leads in every category of peculiar! The language spoken by the most people is Portuguese, not Spanish; the northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to Brazil’s southernmost point. And, on the northeast coast, […]
Georgia 2027! I am delighted to announce our tenth wine and cultural tour to Georgia, a most remarkable country nestled deep in the Caucasus. Georgia is a wonderful place to visit and enjoy its deep history, rich culture and truly unique food and wine. This will be my thirtieth visit […]
Georgia keeps beckoning I travel a great deal, and there is always the question of going to a new destination and exploring the unknown or returning to an old familiar friend. And as I age, slow down a little and generally look for different amusements, the decision exaggerates. Georgia, the […]
Oman – a jewel in the Middle East I lie awake at night from time to time, conjuring up new journeys, and reliving past travels. Cities explored, countries discovered, time-zones conquered and often a list of destinations to be re-examined jostle through my mind as I try to fall asleep. […]
Dubai The Gulf rarely springs to mind when deciding on a winter getaway; at least not from Canada or the USA. Dubai, of course, has long been a magnet for tourists from Europe, and increasing access from North America is drawing more and more visitors to their guaranteed sun and […]
The Queen Mary There are a lot of ways to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and over the past decades I have tried most of them. There are fast ways, Concorde crossed in approximately three hours, twice a day for years, and there are more normal airlines plying the routes daily […]