Clarksville to St. Louis
I left Clarksville early, and I mulled the accuracy of the lyric from the Monkees song, "and I don't know if I'm ever coming back" and wondered how many others had sung that same line to themselves. I was meant…
Asheville to Clarksville
After the Biltmore Estate I'd planned a relatively small 370 mile drive to Clarksville in Tennessee. What was I thinking? 900 miles in two days. The journey started out as an 8 on the pleasant scale as I drove through…
Williamsburg to Asheville
Day one of the road trip turned into quite an ordeal which has called into question my planning skills. 10.5 hours in the car covering 530 miles and I was cream crackered. I took the longer route in order to…
Williamsburg, Va
After a 7 1/2 hour train ride from New York I arrived in Williamsburg on Thursday evening. I've not been here to for eight years and it was good to be back in one of the most beautiful residential settings…
Sailing in Croatia
Liaising with the chaps at Dubrovnik airport was seamless and my "hand luggage only" friends and I were on our way to the Sunsail base at the ACI Marina within minutes of them landing. Our boat for the week was…
Montenegro
After dropping Georgia at the airport I walked about 100 yards to pick up a car for three days. There's something satisfyingly convenient about a small airport with everything close at hand. They didn't have the car I wanted so…
Dubrovnik, Croatia
After the BA computer malfunction on Saturday which caused chaos to thousands of travellers flying from Heathrow and Gatwick we were lucky to get away early on Sunday morning without incident. It was an early start which also means an…
Guadeloupe & St Maarten
Guadeloupe is the first island in the French West Indies that I have visited. Others include Martinique, Saint Martin and St Barts. There are two main islands - Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre which are both much bigger than I'd thought. Not…
Devil’s Island & Barbados
After a couple of sea days we reached the Salvation Islands which are a group of three islands - Devil's Island, Saint-Joesph and Ile Royale. We visited Ile Royale which is the biggest although it still only took an hour…