I find Istanbul a bit challenging because, to be perfectly honest, I strongly dislike religion and here religion is so very present everywhe...

Running Blind was a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the espionage thriller by Desmond Bagley. It involves a double cross, a knife with a ruby p...

Despite being a Danish possession, Greenland struck me (surprising me) as a lot more American than European. For starters it’s population is...

An absolute ball-tearer of a hike but thoroughly rewarding every day. 166km long with about 10,000m of both ascent and descent, through Fran...

My last day in Piran on Slovenia’s Adriatic coast and I’m listening to a performance of Guiseppe Tartini’s Devil’s Trill Sonata for violin a...

“Warsaw has just now been destroyed. No one will ever see the Warsaw I knew. Let me just write about it. Let this Warsaw not disappear forev...

“Did you exchange a walk on part in the War for a lead role in a cage” - Pink Floyd First morning, first air raid. The wailing siren gav...

I’m going to focus on the capitals - Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius - because that’s where I spent most of my time in this region. This grouping ...

Got my Labrador fix on the deck of an overnight rust bucket across the Baltic from Stockholm to Helsinki. Watching a game of ice hockey betw...

Driving through rural Sweden, I felt I better understood the importance of romantic agrarian idealism to the Teutonic heart. It is beautiful...