
UMI Hotel: “it’s August and a/pendulum gladness swings”
The upswing of our trip to Iceland last year (our first international trip after the Covid lockdown) was arriving in August on the first day
Before we were jubilados (Spanish for retirees) we holidayed in France, Greece, Italy and Great Britain so now we’re visiting other countries.
The upswing of our trip to Iceland last year (our first international trip after the Covid lockdown) was arriving in August on the first day
If you turn off the Golden Circle Road in southern Iceland a few hours east of Reykjavik, you will arrive at two waterfalls tucked into
It isn’t often we misjudge a hiking trail and give up on it. And we certainly didn’t expect that on Dronningruta, a hike Queen Sonja of Norway
In my mind’s library of favourite places we’ve stayed, The Old Bookstore in Iceland is a classic, an original that sparks deeper appreciation every time I
We hadn’t planned to visit her. But after overhearing a couple deride the steep, back-jolting road to Askja, an all-day event to see an Icelandic crater we
Do you think of Greece at Eastertime? My association goes back to the 70s when I began the tradition of cooking lamb, Greek-style, for Easter
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