At the outset of 2019, the cruise and land travel calendar looked so ambitious, I wondered how we would make it through the year. Now at the start of 2020, the past year is fast becoming blur. All experiences were
Twyford Village, in the midst of Hampshire, is in the middle of Saxon and Victorian England. Today villagers walk their dogs along the Itchen River, where the path connects Southampton to Winchester through Twyford. In centuries past, this road was
So many cruise aficionados wish they could spend more time in one place. The desire is to take on the appearance of a local, in a relaxed atmosphere sans responsibility. Far from rush hour and plane schedules, close to coffee
On the extreme northwest corner of Wales, in an idyllic cove, there is a fantasy escape engineered by a Welsh architect with abundant creativity and a sense of fun. Fortunately, his neighbors enjoyed watching the project grow. Over a period
Robert Burns was born in a cottage in Alloway Scotland in 1759. In his 37 years, the much loved national poet of Scotland traveled and almost left the country for the West Indies to rid himself of lady problems. He
Edinburgh was in its Golden Age of bright stars in science, art and economics in the early nineteenth century, when Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Dunfermline Scotland, outside of the big city on the Firth of Fourth. Dunfermline