Newfoundland is the closest call in Canada from the UK, just five hours by plane. I found it microscopic on stress, huge on hospitality. My list of things you just can’t miss on this island roughly the size of England includes wilderness and whales, icebergs and Viking remains, seriously good fish dinners and all the… Continue reading
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Monster views from the wild Newfoundland coast
This article by the writer first appeared in the Mail on Sunday, 14 January 2002 ‘There. I saw another one. And this time it was right out of the water.’ We were sitting in a restaurant – in Newfoundland. My wife had the superior air of the person in the seat looking out over one of… Continue reading →
Snowdrifts of silent grief
Three ranks of neat black granite headstones protrude to knee height through the snow. Each stone is etched with the same date, April 15, 1912. The only sound in this hillside cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is the growl of a diesel loco in the nearby rail freight yard, but I sense I am in… Continue reading →
Eagles soar over Nova Scotia's wonder of the world
The Bay of Fundy is both geographical superlative and natural theatre on an epic scale. And, literally, out of this world choreography. We must credit its astounding year round, twice daily performances to the moon. I could see the waters of the highest tide on earth out over the rolling fields of Kings County, an… Continue reading →
Brighton, rock star on the South Coast
The new movie version of Graham Greene‘s Brighton Rock opens this weekend (Jan 28th 2011) in the UK. Purists will note that it’s been updated from 1947 (when Richard Attenborough starred in his breakthrough role as Pinky) to 1964. And nobody would blame Brighton itself for stalking off in a huff after the location scouts… Continue reading →
France's estuary city rises again – with new elephant and an old castle
Good old Google. They don’t need, like everyone else, the occasion of the big round number anniversary to celebrate somebody’s life. How long did it take you to work out what the antique portholes meant in Google’s ornate and rather clever (well, aren’t they all?) doodle on Tuesday February 7? It is, of course, the… Continue reading →