RIBEIRA SACRA
In the Ribeira Sacra’s dizzyingly high landscapes, near-vertical vineyards are perched above rivers. The stunning scenery – and the resulting wines – are an oenophile’s …
STONE SKIMMING
The World Stone Skimming Championships have been held, in Scotland, nearly every September since 1997. Aren’t you glad you know this? The Hebridean island of …
SCOTLAND’S STONEHENGE
Forgotten for centuries, Scotland’s Stonehenge, Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, is one of Britain’s most important archaeological landscapes – but most people have never heard of …
CHOCOLATE
Kim Mishra and Anian Schreiber cooperated on a new chocolate making process. Imagine picking up a nice juicy apple, but instead of biting into …
SEAL WOMAN
I thought this legend/myth of the Seal Woman was fascinating, and worth passing on to my audience. Kópakonan: A statue of the Seal Woman …
POTHOLES
I have written several blogs about potholes – funny ones reported in Trinidad to bikini-clad ladies taking a bath in one. This blog is a …
THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP
In 1905, the future Bloomsbury Group, a group of artists, writers and intellectuals, began to meet weekly at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, London. This …
HEDY LAMARR
I found this story about Hedy Lamarr fascinating, mainly because it had never occurred to me that she was a brilliant inventor as well as …
ROUNDABOUT UNDER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
A roundabout under the Atlantic Ocean sounds a little unlikely, to put it mildly, but it’s a reality in the Faroe Islands, of all places. …
LEGACY OF WORLD WAR II
We don’t normally think about the legacy of World War II in terms of the ordinance that it left behind, that still exists. For example, …