A few hours into the Val Grande national park, one can stumble across the seemingly abandoned hamlet of Pogallo. Once home to Carlo…
Stretching down the Spanish coast one can find a series of towns and villages all the way from Barcelona to Valencia. Away from the crowded and…
We don’t know how Pytheas left the Mediterranean. The Straits of Gibraltar were blockaded, held by the Carthaginians. Pytheas, a Greek, would…
There was a time when you could ride the train all the way to India. Young hippies would cross continents in…
The waves break endlessly against the rocks, forming a regular, comforting, rhythm. Birds swoop and call, and sometimes…
Sprinkled with midwinter snow, the Grand Duchy seems more fairytale than reality. The towers become the homes of sleeping…
The Japanese do not build castles to survive. In a land of volcanoes and earthquakes everything is temporary. Yet this castle did…
