Browsing: Bucket List
The Scottish Highlands are one of the last genuinely wild places in Europe. The numbers bear this out: the entire Highlands contain fewer people per square…
A natural swimming hole is one of those travel experiences that should not be as good as it is. You are essentially swimming in a river…
Colour in a city is either accidental or deliberate, and the difference matters more than you might expect. Accidental colour, the kind that comes from centuries…
Travel bucket lists have a quality problem. Most of them are lists of places rather than experiences, and seeing a place and having an experience in…
Train travel is the only form of long-distance transport that puts you inside the landscape rather than above it. The view from a train window has…
There is a category of travel destination that has earned its reputation so thoroughly that the reputation has become a liability. The over-hyped place that everyone…
Iceland is one of the few places where you can hike across a lava field in the morning, walk behind a waterfall at lunch, and end…
Iceland has more waterfalls per square kilometre than almost anywhere on Earth. The geology explains it — glaciers covering a tenth of the island melt constantly,…
The world’s most spectacular waterfalls share a quality that photographs rarely capture: the feeling of standing next to something operating at a scale that dwarfs everything…
The Caribbean is not one place. It is a hundred different places that happen to share warm water and year-round sunshine. The tourist-brochure Caribbean — white…