No matter how many times you have visited London or how much time you have spent in the city – years or even decades: there will always be entire quarters in which you have never set a foot, and in the quarters that you have visited, there will always be things that you missed. London…
The Marche region may lie in the centre of Italy but if you can imagine a Tourist’s View Of The Country – in the style of Saul Steinberg’s famous View Of the World From Midtown Manhattanposter where every town, state and country beyond the Hudson River disappears in a blur of vague uncertainty – it…
As we demonstrated in last week’s post, there are more reasons to travel to Italy’s Marche region than a visit of Parasol Paradise. Reasons of travel logistics, for example. Marche sits pretty much in the centre of the Adriatic coast, and the airport of Ancona, the region’s heart and capital, is – while small and…
You want to break new ground: to find and explore a piece of unknown Italy? You are looking for a place with hotels, restaurants, railway connections and all the other mod cons (after all, you are a 21st century guy/gal who is not searching to “explore” anything on the back of a donkey, compass in…
In Britain, the city of Durham – about 20 km south of Newcastle – is mainly famous for two things: a bishop who did not believe in God and a university that serves posh kids who have failed their Oxbridge entry exams. We will come to both of these later but start with what Durham…
Good travel destinations, I said a few weeks ago, should offer their visitors three things: character or history, green spaces for a walk, an interesting day trip destination. In our two last posts, we told you where in Marrakesh to find authentically exotic experiences and the most interesting and beautiful gardens. Today, we will turn…
In many ways, Marrakesh appears to be caught between the demands of its ancient soul and the modernity that the professional middle classes aspire to. While parts of Marrakesh and, even more so, the countryside around it look as though little had changed over the past 100 years, … … the modernisers seem to be…
Morocco’s tourism industry ploughs a lone furrow. Alone among countries on the southern rim of the Mediterranean, Morocco has opened itself up to cultural tourism as opposed to resort tourism where visitors are carefully quarantined to prevent them from infecting the national soul. The ox in front of Morocco’s tourism plough is the city of…
No visit of Newcastle would be complete without a trip to the famously dark rocks of the Northumberland coast … … and the historic castles that proudly stand at the North Sea’s edge – as well as the ice cream vans that are parked underneath their walls. Rocks, castles and ice cream vans are all…
Let’s play a game! Please think of famous British sights that you can name off the top of your head – three or four will do. And now please think: how many of these sights are located outside of London? I bet that for most of you the answer will be zero. That, in a…