Travel to learn. Learn to travel.
Dark oak bookshelves, subdued lighting, gently creaking floors and that unmistakable odour of aging paper, leather and bookbinding glue. Chetham’s Library – amongst several notable Manchester libraries – thrilled me from head to toe.
Manchester’s Fab 4 includes England’s oldest public library Read more
With a little help from our friends, I wanna hold your hand, go on a magical mystery tour and imagine we all live in a yellow submarine. We sang and danced our way along a pilgrimage in Liverpool where The Beatles grew up and played.
Imagine unity via music: we followed the Liverpool Beatles trail Read more
Fumbling for coins, waving arms to keep the lights on, balancing while squatting, rummaging in your bag for toilet paper, solving the “how to flush” mystery, getting locked in a stall. Anyone who has left the familiarity of their own bathroom to travel abroad will have toilet tales.
2P to pee and other travel toilet tales Read more
I crept, crablike, down the slippery rock, intending to ease slowly into the waterfall´s icy pool. Instead, I plunged up to my popping eyeballs. Swift immersion into local life, led by our son and his girlfriend, made our trip to Kelowna (Canada) memorable.
Kelowna: plunge into family time for a taste of local life Read more