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“Good Afternoon” “Oh, Hi. Could I ...” “Good AFTERNOON” “Oh, um ... Good Afternoon. Could I please find out ...” We certainly have our ways here in Bermuda. One of those ways includes our traditional greetings, which will require a ‘good' followed by...

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul Alphonse de Lamartine. All my friends were doing it. First it was my two girlfriends. Then the boy I had met on my teaching English as a foreign language course in Prague....

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” Susan Sontag I remember exactly where I was. “Why won’t those kids be quiet?! I’m not feeling well. Could they not for once just keep their voices down?” I berated them (in my head of course). No mat...

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” Dagobert D Runes Breakfast started with a cranberry muffin. Fresh coffee followed with a side of blueberry pancakes. The final course? A chocolate br...

“What do you call a fish with no Is?” asked the WestJet steward across the plane’s sound system. Ignore, ignore ignore. “Fshh.....” Ugh. Why my lack of enthusiasm for humour? It was 12.30am and I was still sitting on a plane destined for Toronto. Tha...

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination,” says Roy M Goodman. Yeah, Mr Goodman. Well have you been delayed five hours when your friends are waiting for you in Boston? Friends you cannot contact? Or what about the friends who ar...

He was only four feet tall. Ok, maybe three-and-a-half. Dressed in a dirt-stained blue shirt and blue shorts, he was ambitious. His eyes had spotted us across the courtyard of the Amber Fort in Jaipur, India and he ran over. With his head tilted to ...

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller. Tomorrow in Enterprise, Alabama one person of Irish descent will march from the town's court house to the boll weevil museum and back (don't ask) carrying a pot of go...

The water was freezing. That would have been fine if I was in Bermuda in August, but I was in Berlin in October. It wasn’t refreshing, it was a necessary sacrifice for the morning shower. “Are you crazy Robyn?” Maybe, but I was also feeling guilty. W...

Some people will do anything to raise money for cancer. Last summer, PALS president and CEO Ann Smith Gordon rode a mule. The mule ride, along the edge of a steep canyon in Utah, was part of a 4,300-mile journey she and two friends took across the na...