Calistoga is one of my favorites places in California because not only is it in the wine country, but it is more laid back and...

More than two years have passed since my last trip to London. It's one of my favorite cities because it its circular layout make it...

For awhile, Glen and I were traveling to London almost yearly. The last time was in November 2019. We would have gone in 2020 had Covid...

These are the days of reverse travel. I had planned to be in Germany this month for the Bayreuth Festival. Instead, the -->

The highlight in any true fan of Richard Wagner’s music is a visit to Bayreuth to attend the annual Bayreuther Festspiele to hear -->

Reading the history of the band Anathema is a course in music history in and of itself. Started in 1990 under the name Pagan Angel, it →

By the time the 21st Century arrived, I had thought that Brian Eno would have written Music for Spaceports, and that I would be listening →

Although the Canary Islands are home to the wild canary, the islands were not named after the bird. It’s the other way around →

If you look at some of the places I’ve traveled—Jukkasjärvi, Barrow, Fairbanks, Puntas Arenas, Patagonia, Andes, Himalaya, and Antarctica →

Every place that draws travelers, like the Ice Hotel, has a main attraction and at least one lesser known back story. Kiruna is →

First you have to catch one, which turns out to be pretty easy if the reindeer are in a corral. The Sami people of Sweden have →

Jukkasjärvi, Sweden is far north, close to where Norway, Finland, and Sweden intersect. If it weren't for the Ice Hotel, very few people →

Ever since I heard of the existence of the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, I wanted to visit it. I'm not sure why, because I'm not →