Mount Vesuvius sits just 9 km outside Naples, glowering imposingly over all around. It is still active and experts believe a massive eruption is due some time soon. History has […]
As an addition to my own coffee spot recommendations, here is one from Tokyo. The blog is well worth a read for other coffee recommendations, as well as for a […]
Frank Lloyd Wright was a romantic with an emotional reaction to architecture and the environment, explaining that “when organic architecture is properly carried out no landscape is ever outraged by […]
At first glance, you may notice nothing strange about these doors and windows in La Plaça dels Sedassos in Tarragona: In fact, they are all painted on a flat wall, with the perspectives […]
Set in 320 acres of stunning Northern Arizona desert, stands the family-run dude ranch, Stagecoach Trails. I have spent two great holidays here already, and will, undoubtedly, return. There are many things that […]
You’d think so, if you saw his current outfit. The bronze Christopher Columbus statue that forms part of the 60 metre tall monument at the bottom of the Ramblas in Barcelona is […]
The face of the famous Tunisian poet, Abdulkacem Chebbi, gazes down from the Belvedere Rocks just south of the Route Touristique in Tozeur. Too much landscaping, including the building of a golf course, has detracted […]