Last year I visited the Kimberley Coastal camp and blogged about the amazing Aboriginal art around the camp. Last week Maureen and I were back there again. And once again I was simply blown away by the variety and quantity of Aboriginal art in the area. Like this handprint, a technique common in Aboriginal...

Feeding wildlife is widely regarded as ‘not advisable,’ despite which plenty of it gets fed in Australia’s Northern Territory. Aquascene is one of Darwin’s big attractions, particularly for children. Every day at high tide the local fish have learnt to swim in to Doctor’s...

A man may stand there and put all America behind him. Henry David Thoreau Pristine sandy beaches, ice cream, and baseball. Cape Cod is the quintessential New England Summer vacation experience. “The Cape” as it is known by New Englanders, is the peninsula of land that juts out into the Atlantic...

In November last year, driving up the coast from Galway in Ireland, I came to the lonely stretch of Irish bog where Alcock and Brown touched down on 15 June 1919 after making t he first flight across the Atlantic . Later I went to the Science Museum in London to look at the big, ungainly Vickers Vimy...

Last September Maureen and I went out the Kimberley Coastal Camp on Port Warrender in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. We flew out there in a single-engined Cessna 210, a couple of hours flight from the town of Broome with a non-stop gallery of amazing views appearing below us. We liked the...

It’s summer in Boston and it is hot! Kick back with your summer drink of choice.  Here are some tasty ones to try: A light and refreshing Watermelon Fizz is just $6 during the month of July at the very chic Japanese eatery Haru in the Prudential Center (55 Huntington Ave., Boston)(Map). One...