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Coyoacan – Mexico City’s Oldest Neighbourhood
Mexico City with a metropolitan population of over 21 million is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere and the largest Spanish speaking city in the world. Not surprisingly it has dozens of distinct neighbourhoods just like New York City, Toronto or Los Angeles. Many of these neighbourhoods hold little of interest to the average […]
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Central Mexico – Go With Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just returned from the inaugural Adventures Abroad tour of Central Mexico with veteran tour guide Victor Romagnoli, featuring the Day of the Dead festivities. All I can say is that it was eye-opening in every sense of the word and although I’ve travelled enough to know that one’s impressions of a […]
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Ketchum Idaho – Hemingway’s Last Stand
Ernest Hemingway is one of those writers who people have little ambivalence about – you either really like him or you hate him. Whether these dispositions are based on his actual writings or on his unabashedly mysogynistic lifestyle doesn’t seem to make a difference. I can overlook his adulterous womanizing, lying and ridiculous braggadocio because […]
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Melrose Abbey – The Heart of Robert the Bruce
This is post number thirteen from a recent trip to Great Britain with Canadian military tour specialists Liberation Tours. Titled Medieval Britain: Castles, Cannons & Crowns our group has been having a blast travelling to some of the most important historical sites in England including Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral, HMS Victory, Warwick Castle, Fountains Abbey and several […]
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Klein Curacao – Curacao’s Beautiful Little Sister
If you look at the flag of Curaçao you’ll see a big star and a little star. The big star is Curaçao and the little star is the tiny island of Klein Curacao which simply means Little Curaçao. A day trip visit to Klein Curacao to walk its beautiful sand beach, swim and snorkel in […]
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National Anthropology Museum – Mexico City
Mexico City’s National Anthropology Museum tells the story of the many cultures and civilizations that made up pre-Columbian Meso-America in both a compelling and readily understandable manner. It is simply one of the best museums in the world and no visit to Mexico City would be complete without spending at least a few hours here, […]
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Vindolanda – An English Roman Settlement
We continue our tour of Medieval Great Britain with Liberation Tours after visiting the castle of Richard III at Middleham. Next we will veer away from Medieval times and turn the clock back a thousand years. I have always been a keen student of all matters relating to the Roman Empire and the unrivalled dramatis […]
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Monteverde – Costa Rica’s Amazing Cloud Forest
In 2018 year Alison and I visited Colombia and Panama on a tour with our favourite travel company Adventures Abroad. You can read about that amazing trip in any one of the 20 + posts on this website. Although the tour was continuing on to Costa Rica our original plan was to call it a […]
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Old Quarry G. C. – A Pete Dye Masterwork
I’ve been playing golf longer than I care to remember and at courses around the world I do care to remember. Among golf architects, Pete Dye has always been my favourite, although I know others who abhor his signature railroad ties and the difficulty of some of his courses. My personal favourites about which you […]
From the road
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April 20th, 2023
I’ve had a bad case of writer’s block since getting back from Southeast Asia, but I did finish this post on the fan… https://t.co/HoJjP4jeha
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April 12th, 2023
One of the main reasons to visit the Galapagos is to see the giant tortoises. This latest post explains where you c… https://t.co/mQ8PWha8j3
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April 11th, 2023
Spring is very late this year so it’s nice to see the crocuses finally show up. https://t.co/7HD6wvsEJ6
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April 9th, 2023
Sunday morning is a good time to reflect back on another Sunday in Reading, England which I wrote about here:… https://t.co/EJ4Is2NSqz