- April 6, 2016Quintessential Highland country such as this, marked by single-tracked roads, breath-taking emptiness and a wild, fragile beauty, is a rarity…
- March 31, 2016Floating off Scotland’s remote northeast coast, the Orkney and Shetland Islands are captivating archipelagos forming an antithesis to modern urban…
- March 23, 2016O’Connell Bridge, named after the founder of Irish nationalism, Dan O’Connell, the Liberator (who’s statue by Foley, appears on the…
- March 21, 2016Glendalough (“glen of the two lakes”), an early monastic settlement in a cup of the Wicklow Mountains is impressively lonely…
- March 14, 2016Gay sunlights o’er the hillocks creep And join for golden weather, - A scythe-sweep, and a scythe-sweep, We mow the…
- March 7, 2016Narrow Water Castle at the bottle-neck of the Newry Water which runs into Carlingford Lough was built after the restoration…
- March 3, 2016Inistioge (“Teoc’s or Tighe’s Island”) is a most pleasant example of the little Irish village with church, cross, spirit-grocery, petrol-pump…
- February 29, 2016As Edinburgh expanded in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many old tenements were demolished and new bridges were…
- February 25, 2016“Praise the beach when you come to it”, runs the Gaelic saying, and Rossnowlagh (the Wood of the Apples) is…
- February 22, 2016From the rugged ridges of Ben More and the black basalt crags of Burg to the blinding white sand, rose-pink…