When asked to depict my favourite place on earth, I am fortunate enough to immediately think of where I grew up, Luxembourg. Now that I have been studying in the city of Glasgow for five years, I treasure the visits to my family home in Consdorf, a rural village situated close to the German border.…
For those of you who have never had the privilege of visiting Florence and for those who have visited, let me share with you how I feel about this glorious city. My first visit to Florence was in 1971, before Euros, before cell phones, before the number of tourists became overwhelming. I walked the streets…
When asked; ‘What is your favourite place on Earth?’ I could easily answer the Galápagos’ Islands, Hungary or any other location I’ve been fortunate enough to travel to. But I’d be lying if I said that. What connects you to a location is the memories you hold there; whether they are happy, sad, or both.…
Thick undergrowth obscures our path. We step over huge tree roots and duck under low hanging vines. Up ahead, our guide stops and stares into what looks to us as an impenetrable wall of foliage. Then, he points. We follow the line of his finger and there, through the understory, a glimpse of black hair.…
I find myself in the roof deck restaurant sipping a local mango juice. Puerto Bay is very visible. It is a good view as I watch people stroll along the boardwalk. The best island hopping happens. I use a motorboat with a guide and see the white sand beaches in Honda Bay. They are beautiful.…
For a travel enthusiast like me, coming across the opportunity to visit a historical place was priceless. Ankober, a mountainous place at 2000+ meters elevation in my country – Ethiopia, was an amazing experience to start with. The goal was to reach out to the lifestyle outside my city, Addis Ababa – the capital of…
Have you ever felt a connection with somewhere that you’ve never visited, without understanding why? More than two decades ago, I recall unfolding a map of Tasmania and feeling my gaze involuntarily drawn to the large expanse of green nothingness in the lower left-hand corner. What sort of place in temperate Australia could have no…
The acoustic landscape is so heavily saturated with bird calls that there’s barely space left for us to speak. That doesn’t stop Tuhuna, our Ua Hukan guide, shouting instructions above the cacophony. Marquesan mingles with French. A few words of English are woven into the fabric for my benefit. I understand that I am to…
It’s all David Attenborough’s fault. When she was eleven years old my wife saw him rolling in the grass with mountain gorillas and a dream was born. So, we went to Rwanda. Like you do. From the Mountain Gorilla View Lodge, we were taken to the edge of the rain forest to meet our guides.…
This is a place of spectacular contrasts. Where water meets fire, light meets dark, life meets death. Where the Okavango river, swollen with the winter rains of Angola’s highlands, flows down into Botswana, releasing water into a vast inland oasis. This is the Okavango Delta, a mosaic of papyrus, lagoons, grasslands and marsh; a magnet…