Jubilados (Spanish for retirees) savouring the journey

Chosen carefully, planned well and travelled independently

Stories of global travel adventures from Gloria and Kerry, a.k.a. Spice and Magellan

“All the Ideas in My Head”

When Martin Luque and Francisco (Pancho) Gilardi in 1975 asked Luis Barragán to design a studio space and party house for the advertising agency they

Monte Alban

Monte Albán

One of Mexico’s most outstanding archaeological sites, Monte Albán was a powerful and influential metropolis of uninterrupted cultural evolution for 1500 years until it was abandoned

La Casa de mis Recuerdos 

Deciding where to stay in Oaxaca can take days. Unless you discover a bit of paradise, La Casa de mis Recuerdos. Magellan suggested we stay in Jalatlaco, a neighbourhood

Loving Roni Horn’s “Vatnasafn/Library of Water”

Stykkishólmur, Stokkseyri, Stöðvarfjörður, all names of Icelandic places starting with “St.” Like an English adjective applicable to me. Planning our trip to Iceland, I stupidly screwed

Quirpon Island

Legend has it the deserted island of Quirpon off the extreme tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula in the icy strait that separates it from

Stuðlagil Canyon

“Hidden gem.”  Really? Is there any place in Iceland that hasn’t been discovered? Stuðlagil Canyon wasn’t in either of our guidebooks. A Google query for it only