By Mike Grenby Special to the News ILULISSAT, Greenland They say an iceberg from here sank the Titanic.
This really is the land of fire and ice. While three major glaciers cover 15 per cent of the country, you can also get up close and personal with thermal vents as they roar their superheated sulphurous steam out through cracks in the ground.
Before I left home, I told friends I had booked a hotel room in Switzerland over a bakery so I could wake up to the smell of fresh baking. The friends immediately offered to help me carry my suitcases.
Penguins on the equator?
Swimming with marine iguanas as well as turtles and sea lions?
Getting up close and personal with blue-footed boobies, a…
NEW YORK, New York
Spend a little or spend a lot, this city is hot.
All the songs you’ve heard about New York or the movies you’ve seen…
LOCHRANZA, Isle of Arran
They call this island, “Scotland in miniature.”
But there’s nothing miniature about the fells that swoop…
By Mike Grenby
Special to the News
MANTEIGAS, Portugal
I don’t know why I always wanted to visit Portugal.
Qantas First host Martina and a porter greet you at the curb as you arrive at Sydney’s international airport.
AKHA VILLAGE, Thailand
It was truly a bamboo banquet: cooked on, cooked in, eaten with and eaten out of bamboo that our guides had cut down during a…
PARO, Bhutan
There is no TV or radio in the hotel room. There isn’t even a clock. And when you arrive at Amankora, there is no formal…