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Chasing Drumbeats
A Mother, a Daughter, and Montana’s Crow Fair I have planned entire vacations around pow wows; flights booked, hotels reserved, itineraries built around a single weekend of drumbeats and dust. It’s an odd confession from someone whose family tree is rooted almost entirely in Western Europe. But hey, I’m as entitled to a quirky obsession…
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The Calvados Club Goes to Normandy
There are friendships forged in the usual ways: school ties, shared offices, chance encounters. And then there are the bonds sealed over a glass of something magnificent. For six like-minded gentlemen from East Sussex, it was Calvados. That burnished, aromatic spirit, born of Norman orchards and patient oak, that did the honours. Rich, complex, and…
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Herceg Novi – Montenegro’s Coastal Secret
‘Herceg where?’ I hear you ask…Well, Herceg Novi was my first glimpse of Montenegro, and from the moment I set eyes on it, I knew it would remain etched in my memory. Nestled at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor in southwestern Montenegro, this coastal town is one of the first towns travellers reach…
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Off The Beaten Track
The imposing Portpatrick Hotel stands, almost benevolently, above the tiny fishing village of Portpatrick, Scotland’s hidden gem on the west coast of the Rhins of Galloway. It’s probably as far west as you can go in southern Scotland, and nearly as far south as you can go in western Scotland. Travelling to Portpatrick involves a…
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Heaven is a Place on Earth
Heaven is a place on earth – and it is called Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu. It’s just a thirty-minute seaplane from the Maldivian airport of Malé, and I have never experienced a place that embodies such complete peace and ultimate luxury. Departing London Gatwick on a wet and miserable November evening, all worries, cares, and…
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Ghost Town
It started when I chose the scenic route out of Moab, gateway to Utah’s red-rock country. Taking a rain check on the crowds bound for Arches National Park, I followed Highway 128, a ribbon of road twisting beside the Colorado River, its restless waters rehearsing the role they’d one day perfect – carving the Grand…
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
MARK TWAIN
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Falling in love with Porto
Perched above the Douro, Porto is not so much a destination as an immersion, a place where graceful bridges, hand-painted tiles, and the scent of warm pastry conspire to make you never want to leave. Portugal’s second city has been quietly earning its superlatives for years. In 2025, the World Travel Awards named it Europe’s…
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Hemi Hideout – A mancave on steroids
Somewhere between a museum, a fever dream, and a love letter to the open road, lies the most gloriously excessive private collection in America. Just west of Houston, Texas, I turned onto a small country lane. The place looked downright sedate. Even the old windmill seemed sleepy, turning languidly despite an impending storm. I lurched…
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Where Sundays Still Matter
A Moorish castle crowns a mountain village, time slows to the pace of olive groves, and Sunday belongs to the women of Tolox. There is a road in southern Spain that climbs away from the glittering coast and curls upward to a different world entirely. Leave behind the beach clubs of Marbella, the frenetic pulse…
