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  1. 04 Nov 2009

  2. press reviewed Ex Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany

    By Adrian Bridge for The Telegraph First Published: 9th Oct 2009 Then...9 November 1989 I flew to Berlin within hours of the announcement the Wall was coming down and by the time I got to the Ku’damm, West Berlin’s premier shopping street,…"

  3. 25 Oct 2009

  4. press reviewed La Ciudad Perdida (Lost City) in Caribbean Coast, Colombia

    By Mark Henderson for The Guardian First Published Saturday 24 October 2009  Six years after being taken hostage in the jungle, Mark Henderson makes an emotional return to Colombia – and finds peace and beauty in its wilds From the window o…"

  5. press reviewed Windsurfing Jericoacoara in Bahia North East, Brazil

    By Will Hide for The Times First Published May 9, 2009 I have discovered a place where even Bounty Bars dream of retiring to, and surely it can’t remain that way for ever. When it appears in brochures in a decade or so, I’ll sit smugly roun…"

  6. press reviewed Devils Tower in Mountain States, United States

    By Richard Green for Times Online First Published October 22, 2009 ... Yes it was the Devil’s Tower that featured in Spielberg’s 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as the alien landing pad. It is little wonder that it was c…"

  7. 16 Oct 2009

  8. press reviewed Niagara Falls in Buffalo, United States

    By Louise Southerden for The Sydney Morning Herald First Published October 11, 2009 One of the newest attractions on the Canadian side of the falls is Niagara's Fury, a cinematic experience with effects, at the newly renovated Table Rock Centre, next t…"

  9. 15 Oct 2009

  10. press reviewed Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and its Moai in Easter Island, Chile

    By Rory Carroll for guardian.co.uk First Published 11 October 2009 It was supposed to be a first step in controlling the throngs of tourists and migrants that threaten the fragile ecology and cultural heritage of Easter Island. Since last month, every…"

  11. 05 Oct 2009

  12. press reviewed Québec in Quebec City, Canada

    By Louise Penny for The Telegraph First Published 4 Oct 2009 WHY QUÉBEC CITY? I lived there in the Eighties and spent a month there this past winter, researching my next book. It's the only fortified city on the continent. It is both historic a…"

  13. press reviewed Coromandel Peninsula in North Island, New Zealand

    By Fay Weldon for The Telegraph First Published 5th Oct 2009 My favourite destination in the world will always be Coromandel in New Zealand, on North Island's Coromandel Peninsula. There I can go back to my golden age and find very little changed: it i…"

  14. press reviewed Thoreau's Walden Pond in US East Coast, United States

    By JAY ATKINSON for The New York Times First Published October 2nd, 2009 I ARRIVE at Walden Pond State Reservation here just after sunrise, recalling that a certain local resident named Thoreau once wrote that “morning brings back the heroic ages…"

  15. press reviewed Champagne in Reims, France

    By Anthony Peregrine for The Sunday Times First Published October 4, 2009 Let us agree that champagne is vital to the festive season — a retreat from charades, stodge and stuffing to the sunlit uplands of elegance. Or sanity, at least. After a co…"

  16. press reviewed Margaret River Wine Region in Western Australia, Australia

    By Catherine Marshall for The Australian First Published October 03, 2009 THE rain falls thick and fast as I make my way up the flank of the Cape Naturaliste promontory in Australia's southwest. Its quenching power contrasts ironically with the flames …"

  17. press reviewed The Colosseum in Rome, Italy

    By Mary Beard for The Telegraph First Published 30 Sep 2009 The last words of the Emperor Vespasian – the eighth emperor of Rome – were memorable for their down-to-earth common sense. "Damn," he is supposed to have said. "I t…"

  18. press reviewed Capri in The Amalfi Coast, Italy

    By Steven Berkoff for The Telegraph First Published 27 Sep 2009 How can I begin to describe the island of Capri? "Capricious" – playful, unpredictable? Or, how about "capricciosa", a rather delicious pizza? Maybe it's a little…"

  19. press reviewed Cruise the Amazon in Amazon River, Brazil

    By John Nowlan for The Australian First Published October 03, 2009 JEAN-MICHEL Cousteau warns us to expect a dramatic change in the colour of the ocean. We are cruising through sparkling blue Atlantic waters off the coast of Brazil heading towards the …"

  20. press reviewed Mauritius in Mauritius

    By Pico Iyer for The Australian First Published October 03, 2009 I AM walking, almost alone it seems, with two lion cubs through a wilderness evocative of Africa. The feral creatures are trotting along beside me, completely free, turning around every n…"

  21. press reviewed Polyrinia in Crete, Greece

    By Christopher Somerville for The Times First Published July 25th 2004 ...It seemed an archetypal image of western Crete, and one enhanced by the setting, for Polyrinia is one of the island’s most beautifully positioned archeological sites. The …"

  22. 22 Sep 2009

  23. press reviewed Chateau de Versailles in Paris, France

    By Rory Mulholland for The Australian First Published September 23, 2009 FUTURISTIC purple horses and a colossal Yuri Gagarin are on show at Versailles as the royal palace shrugs off controversy and confirms its place as an important new exhibition spa…"

  24. press reviewed Walking in the Annapurna Region in Nepal

    By Alison Middleton for The Australian First Published September 19, 2009 OUR Nepalese tour leader looks at us patiently. We are on the Annapurna Circuit, a three-week trek around the Annapurna range in the Himalayas. The scenery includes Annapurna I,…"

  25. press reviewed Everest Base Camp Trek in Mount Everest, Nepal

    By Carol Nader for The Sydney Morning Herald First Published September 19, 2009 For eight days, we have done little more than walk. I haven't showered in a week, the altitude is making me feel nauseous and walking through the snow since 6am has made me…"

  26. press reviewed Central Suriname Nature Reserve in Suriname

    By Andrew Westoll for The Australian First Published September 19, 2009 OUR journey begins deep inside the Central Suriname Nature Reserve, the world's largest tract of pristine protected rain forest. It is 5.30am, still dark, and the air is thick wit…"

  27. press reviewed Etna in Catania, Italy

    For The Telegraph First Published 05 Sep 2009 Sicily has a variety of interesting historical houses to rent, so finding a good villa to stay in is not difficult, even in peak months. Because the weather is normally good until mid-November, and villa co…"

  28. press reviewed The Great Silk Road on horse back in Kyrgyzstan

    By Tony Kelly for The Times  First Published September 19, 2009 We had spent the morning walking across a flat, stony landscape on the edge of the Gobi Desert, the monotony of the scenery broken only by an occasional conical brick tomb. Suddenly,…"

  29. press reviewed The Northern Lights in Nord-Norge, Norway

    By Stephen McClarence for The Times First Published September 19, 2009 Deep in the Arctic pine forest we hear the huskies long before we see them. A chorus of barking greets our arrival at Teuro Mikkonen’s dog camp in Finnish Lapland: 80 huskies …"

  30. press reviewed Curonian Spit in Klaipėda, Lithuania

    By Viv Groskop for The Observer First Published 20 September 2009  Getting to Lithuania is not dirt cheap, but once you're there, it's the 70s: boutique hotels cost from £60 a night, holiday apartments from £40. It would be even c…"

  31. press reviewed St. Vincent in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    By Tamsin Kelly for The Telegraph First Published 21 Sep 2009 I'm sitting on the rim of a volcano, my feet dangling beneath me. La Soufrière on the Caribbean island of St Vincent is still active; it last erupted in 1979, clouds of grey ash showe…"

  32. 08 Sep 2009

  33. press reviewed Anse Victorin in Seychelles

    By Nicky Holford for the Telegraph First Published 15 Oct 2008 On the north east side of Frégate Island, a quarter of a mile of the finest white sand and gentle surf bordered by granite cliffs and coconut palms. Who goes? Anyone who rents one …"

  34. 07 Sep 2009

  35. press reviewed Etna in Catania, Italy

    By Johnny Morris for The Telegraph First Published September 5th 2009 Our helicopter hovered like a mayfly just a hundred feet above the southeast crater at the summit of Mount Etna. For a few moments I found myself floating above Europe’s highes…"

  36. press reviewed Trail riding in the Torres del Paine in Paine Circuit, Chile

    By Rebecca Worrell for Times Online First Published 3rd September 2009 Horse-lovers, picture this and drool in envy; spread before me is a sweeping valley, thick with golden grass, pockets of beech trees in pillarbox red and cinnamon orange, a crisp sk…"

  37. press reviewed Isles of Scilly Sailing in The United Kingdom

    By Kathleen Wyatt for The Times First Published September 5th 2009 The barbecue summer may have been rained off, then postponed (not surprisingly for a British barbecue), but there is a plan B — if you can call tropical islands on the edge of Bri…"

  38. press reviewed Abergavenny Food Festival in Wales, United Kingdom

    It's the biggest date in Wales's gourmet calendar. As well as around 170 stalls selling local Welsh produce, there will be tutored tastings with top chocolatiers and cider-makers, talks and masterclasses by famed foodies such as Antonio Carluccio, Levi R…"

  39. press reviewed Lake Como in Lombardy-Lakes, Italy

    By Sam Delaney for The Guardian First Published 2 September 2009  Lake Como is so beautiful, so peaceful, so crammed full of great restaurants and swanky hotels, you could be fooled into thinking it's the exclusive preserve of holidaying oligarchs…"

  40. press reviewed Harry Lime's Ferris Wheel (The Third Man) in Vienna, Austria

    By Tom Chesshyre for The Times First Published September 5th, 2009 Under a sycamore tree on a corner of a road just south of the Vienna opera house a handful of tourists has gathered by a hole in a pavement with a spiral staircase leading down into dar…"

  41. press reviewed Danube River Cruise in Budapest, Hungary

    By Richard Green for Times Online First Published 4th September 2009 I would like to travel along some of the river Danube, possibly between Vienna, Belgrade, Budapest and Bucharest, but do not want to do a cruise. Do you know if there are any local fe…"

  42. 21 Aug 2009

  43. press reviewed Alcatraz in San Francisco, United States

    By Tom de Castella for The Sunday Times First Published August 16 2009 The pilot kills the engine and soon we are rocking in the waves. Alcatraz is 15 yards away, my starting point. A mile and a half across the bay lies the prize of San Francisco …"

  44. 17 Aug 2009

  45. press reviewed Çalis Beach in Fethiye, Turkey

    By John Barnabas for The Daily Mail First Published 12 April 2005 Çalis Beach is situated on the bay of Fethiye a short bus or water taxi ride from the town of Fethiye. The approaches to the resort give an initial impression of a sleepy, slightl…"

  46. 12 Aug 2009

  47. press reviewed Kekova in Aegean Region, Turkey

    By Alexandra Ferguson for the Sydney Morning Herald First Published August 9, 2009 We drag the kayaks ashore. In the centre of the beach, in the shade of a eucalyptus tree, stand the ruins of a Byzantine church. A single wall and tumbledown archway rem…"

  48. press reviewed Snorkeling Palau in Palau

    By Martha Ann Overland for The Times  First Published Aug. 06, 2009 As mesmerizing and as beautiful as they are, most of us prefer to see jellyfish through a thick wall of aquarium glass. But given a chance to swim with invertebrates and not get s…"

  49. press reviewed The Hiram Bingham to Machu Picchu in Cusco, Peru

    By Steve McKenna for The Sydney Morning Herald First Published August 9, 2009 Hardy trekkers may lap-up the various three- and four-day trails that lead to the legendary Lost City of the Incas but for those more inclined to living the high life, the Hi…"

  50. press reviewed The Ghan in Northern Territory, Australia

    By Iver Peterson for The New York Times First Published: August 11, 2009 THE Ghan, part cruise train, part the working train that it started as, 90 years ago, is Australia’s transcontinental north-south line — a private railroad now running…"

  51. press reviewed Pampelonne Beach in Provence-Cote d'Azur, France

    For The Times First Published August 2009 Despite annual obituaries, Pampelonne still attracts the beautiful, the famous and the immodestly rich. A member of staff at the beach’s Club 55 last year reported having served Elton John, Hugh Grant and…"

  52. 10 Aug 2009

  53. press reviewed Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    By Owen O'Leary and Claudia Monteiro for The Guardian First Published 10th August, 2009 Owen O'Leary and Claudia Monteiro, editors of The Locals' Guide to Edinburgh, asked the city's seasoned festival experts how they make the most of the month of Augu…"

  54. 29 Jul 2009

  55. press reviewed Urnes Stave Church in Vestlandet, Norway

    The wooden church of Urnes (the stavkirke) stands in the natural setting of Sogn og Fjordane. It was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and is an outstanding example of traditional Scandinavian wooden architecture. It brings together traces of Celtic a…"

  56. 28 Jul 2009

  57. press reviewed Naeroyfjord in Vestlandet, Norway

    Situated in south-western Norway, north-east of Bergen, Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord, set 120 km from one another, are part of the west Norwegian fjord landscape, which stretches from Stavanger in the south to Andalsnes, 500 km to the north…"

  58. 27 Jul 2009

  59. press reviewed Sörmland Sea Kayaking in Stockholm, Sweden

    By Doug Lansky for The Guardian First Published June 10, 2006 This four-day sea-kayaking trip in Stockholm's 24,000-island archipelago, my first without a guide, is largely about snakes, sharks, bears, hurricanes and dangerous ocean currents. More spec…"

  60. press reviewed Gammelstad in Norrland, Sweden

    Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a 'church village', a unique kind of village formerly found throughout northern Scandinavia. The 424 wooden houses, huddled round the early 15th-century stone church, were u…"

  61. 26 Jul 2009

  62. press reviewed Pompeii in Naples, Italy

    By Mary Beard for The Telegraph First Published 15 July 2009 Pompeii is unforgettable. It is the only place in the world where you can begin to understand, face to face, how the Romans of the first century AD lived: from the brothels and lavatories to …"

  63. press reviewed The Ghan in Northern Territory, Australia

    By Louise Southerden for the Sydney Morning Herald First Published July 25, 2009 Stephen Hawking once said the absence of tourists from the future suggests that time travel is probably impossible. But he might have been persuaded otherwise if he'd trav…"

  64. press reviewed Journeys on the Ganges in Haridwar, India

    By Gill Charlton for The Telegraph First published 23rd July, 2009 Jai Prakash Sharma was born to be a tour leader. The son of a Brahmin farmer from Bundi in Rajasthan, he combines a deep love of his country with a mischievous sense of humour and the a…"

  65. 16 Jun 2009

  66. press reviewed La Selva Biological Station in San José, Costa Rica

    At the confluence of the Puerto Viejo and Sarapiquí rivers, La Selva packs about 420 bird species, 460 tree species, and 500 butterfly species into just 15 square km (6 square mi). Spottings might include the spider monkey, poison dart frog, agouti, coll…"

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