Category: Europe travel
Of course, on my first trip to Yellowstone National Park, I wanted to see Old Faithful. This very predictable geyser is one of the park’s major attractions, and so …
Ireland: it is a land of legend, of myth, of mountain and sea and river and green field, a place that captures the imaginations and heart. Ireland is a …
I left the home of the House of Terror and took the night train to Transylvania. It sounds like a line from a book where something is going to …
If you walk the ninety six miles of Scotland’s West Highland Way from just on the northern outskirts of Glasgow to Gordon Square in Fort William, you may want …
Songs arise in many different ways. A songwriter might be inspired by a walk by the water, a chance conversation with an acquaintance, a turn of the weather. But …
Andy Hall is a photographer. He is also a man with a deep love for the land of his native Scotland. He’s chosen a creative way of sharing that …
What do you picture when you hear the word “castle”? Fanciful ones with narrow turrets like Cinderella would live in? Vertical walls of stone on an island in a …
The landscape of Scotland is as much character as it is backdrop in the film Brave. An artist’s idea of Scotland, that is, as Brave is an animated film. …
Gray wooden bookstalls, complete with yellow awning and gingerbread columns, line the softly sloping and tree lined Calle de Claudio Moyano, a pedestrian walkway that skirts Madrid’s Retiro …
Madrid is one of the last places you’d expect to find an ancient Egyptian temple. But there it stands – the Templo de Debod – on the outskirts of …
Sonically, the Glasgow School of Art is not all that quiet. It’s a working art school, with students coming and going all the time. This last good while, too, …
Want to visit some dive bars so divey that they’re located in what were abandoned buildings? In Budapest, you can hit four or five of them in just a …