Category Archives: Travel

The most memorable eating experiences are often as much about the moment and the unlikely location as the food itself – as these delicious encounters prove

World’s first public exhibit of juvenile olms, mysterious underground amphibians, will open on 11 June in Slovenia’s famous Postojna Cave

Cocktails on a deck by the Saigon river, a beer on a Portuguese cliff face, and a Belgian bar that might leave you shoeless.

Put your best foot forward and have a go at navigating this quiz

Travel is an amazing privilege, you probably realise that now you’ve been deprived of it. I know I do. We should never take it for granted. I travel because my own father always said he would travel after he’d retired, but he never got the chance because he died from cancer when he was 49.Continue reading “Julian’s Journeys”

Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga dazzled the king of Spain, set up diplomatic links with 17th-century Europe and even met the pope

I have added some of my images to the PicFair site. The photos include images of Leon in Spain, Symi in the Dodecanese Islands, the Titanic Centre in Belfast, the Callanish Standing Stones on Lewis, The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Dunluce Castle in Antrim, and The Giant’s Causeway. You can see them here

From a Saramago masterpiece to Monica Ali’s rural blues, via mountains, cities and coast, bookmark this reading list for a flavour of Portugal – and its people

The most memorable eating experiences are often as much about the moment and the unlikely location as the food itself – as these delicious encounters prove

World’s first public exhibit of juvenile olms, mysterious underground amphibians, will open on 11 June in Slovenia’s famous Postojna Cave