Sand, Schmaltz and the Beach That Never Ends
Travelling is tough. It requires a clear vision, a sharp mind and the ability to make decisions. You need to make decisions all the time. Should we eat in or should we eat out?...
Tagged: Beaches
Popham Beach Gallery
Ten days gave us plenty of opportunity to appreciate the varied but always spectacular moods of Popham Beach. Healthy breakers lapping the shore, islands you can walk to, sturdy lighthouses in the distance and...
Impressions of Maine
Lighthouses, lobster shacks, blueberries and clam chowder. That’s Maine, right? Not so. For me, the irresistible draw of travel is exactly that: the way in which the real place is always both more and less than...
Northern Maine Gallery
Our New England meanderings included two separate stints in Maine. For the first and northernmost of these, we stayed in a small lobster fishing village called Corea. We chose this location to be close to Acadia...
South Iceland Gallery I
Jokulsarlon is one of the most famous and most visited natural attractions in Iceland and turned out to be one of our favourites too. It offers the mind-boggling combination of a glacier, an iceberg...
Westfjords Gallery
Remote and rugged, the Westfjords are filled with towering waterfalls, craggy mountains and spell-binding beaches. These are some of our favourite images from this region.
Don Juan and the Westfjords
My friend Paul has a system. He uses it to determine how good-looking he is compared to the general population. When he enters a room, an auditorium or a stadium, he decides, using purely...
Snaefellsnes Peninsula Gallery
It sounds like a man supressing a sneeze, but the Snaefellsnes Peninsula is in fact a glorious, relatively deserted peninsula that stretches out from the west coast of Iceland. Enjoy some of our images.
Hitting the Road
I knew we were back in London when I saw the Heathrow customs queue. It snaked back on itself multiple times and seemed to expand and contract like a slinky spring as it moved...
