Author: John rubber
I have visited Rome four times and still feel like I have barely scratched the surface. The city is designed to overwhelm you, and most first-time…
The Amalfi Coast is both one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen and one of the most miserable to visit in the wrong…
Sicily stopped me in my tracks in a way that very few places have. I arrived expecting somewhere like southern Italy but slightly rougher around the…
Most people who visit Portugal spend their entire trip between Lisbon and the Algarve and come home thinking they have seen the country. I did exactly…
Ten days in Portugal sounds generous until you start planning it and realise that the country has about four completely different versions of itself stacked on…
I discovered the Alentejo by accident. I was driving from Lisbon to Evora and took a wrong turn somewhere near Montemor-o-Novo that added forty minutes to…
I arrived in Porto expecting a smaller, quieter version of Lisbon. What I found was a completely different city with its own logic, its own food,…
Norway has more fjords than any map can properly show. The country’s western coastline is so deeply indented that if you straightened it out it would…
The Lofoten Islands sit above the Arctic Circle in a chain of jagged peaks rising directly from the Norwegian Sea. The mountains here do not build…
I have chased the northern lights three times. The first two times I saw nothing, or next to nothing, a faint green smear on the horizon…