Hitchcock (and Daphne du Maurier) were right. Birds are dangerous creatures, especially right now...

After Cyprus's worst winter for 100 years, spring arrived suddenly around ten days ago. At the...

Cyprus has never been so green. In April, usually the mountainsides have their wild flowers but...

It's a baking hot January day, sailing in the Arabian Sea. Leaving the Musandam Peninsula – the...

OK, I know it's all over and it was last night that we broke open the fizz. But if you're...

Goats are everywhere in Cyprus. Especially where we live – the last house up the mountain. We had...

Greenland is big, really big, but not much of it is what you'd call habitable. It has,...

I've just stepped off a ship (Fred Olsen's Boudicca) and in to a geography text book. Iceland has...

At Belfast City Airport, I was picked up by an English taxi driver now resident in Northern...

Mountains are unlike other landscapes. They stand in dominating isolation, have their own strange...

Crete is an island that's built on a mountainous, monumental scale. Peaks soar to over 8000ft ...

It was Wallis Simpson who said "You can never be too rich or too thin." She wasn't the first to...

It's just over a week since Philip had a triple heart bypass. It has transformed my husband -...

Who would try to farm in the desert? And, what's more, a desert created not just by drought but...

Who in their right mind would get up in the dark to go wandering in the woods in late October?...

Marmaris is on Turkey's appropriately named Turquoise Coast. The water is warm and inviting and...

Jordan is one of my top three favourite countries. I've visited many times over the last 15 years...

After all the travelling, it's good to come home to London especially in the summer when the...

The Gardens of Irini were until last year not just the home of my old friend Deirdre Guthrie,...

August is a month best avoided in Cyprus. Unfortunately, this year it decided to arrive in June....