Browsing: Road Trip
Colorado got into my blood on a backpacking trip I took the summer after finishing university, when I spent three weeks in the San Juan Mountains…
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…
Norway without a car sounds like a significant disadvantage. The country is long and its most famous landscapes are spread across hundreds of kilometres of fjord…
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…
The Faroe Islands versus Iceland comparison comes up constantly in travel planning circles and the two destinations are genuinely different in ways that make the choice…
Europe’s waterfalls are among its least-marketed natural assets. Most visitors come for the cities, the coast, the mountains — and entirely miss the waterfalls hidden in…
Route 1 — the Ring Road — circles Iceland for 1,332 kilometres. It passes glaciers, active volcanoes, sea cliffs with puffin colonies, geothermal fields, and fjords.…
Norway’s scenic routes are designated by the government — eighteen roads officially selected for exceptional landscape. Driving them is not a commute with views; it is…