Hints and tips:
...For more on visiting the country, see georgia.travel Disappointment I quite like beach resorts, but rarely has my mission to resist my inner grumpy old man faced a sterner test than at a hotel on the grey...
...Our dessert finally arrives: soft grey custard buns topped with gold flakes and filled with grainy sweet sesame paste....
...Outside, wooden boats lined the river, their noses pointed towards the grey Wadden Sea, the world’s largest expanse of intertidal mudflats. Then the herring arrived....
...Belfast Pico Iyer For outsiders, Belfast has long been associated with its history of sectarian rage: bombings and hunger strikes and slogans of hatred....
...Pico Iyer Discovery: Dog-mushing across frozen ponds as winds whip snow into fast-moving blizzards? Driving snowmobiles through near-impassable woods in minus 39C?...
...Gazebo-like structures nestle among lush foliage; grey stone sculptures enact eternal dioramas and Japanese maples gently fan placid lakes. It is also a digital panopticon....
...Details Pico Iyer was a guest of the Alaska Travel Industry Association and Explore Fairbanks....
...working (and I was taking a post-lunch stroll), there was not a patch of woodland, not a vineyard, not a solitary fig tree — nothing but an expanse of olive trees stretching to the far horizon, their silvery-grey-green...
...This particular piece from the late 1800s is made of light-coloured wood and is upholstered in a very pale grey fabric....
...of them was more flagrantly, fiercely beautiful than Castelejo, a few miles out of Vila do Bispo — a beach to make you feel small and awestruck as you potter among the rock-pools, contemplating the dark grey...
...Pico Iyer Discovery The ultimate airport lounge I never thought I’d be extolling an airport lounge, but then I never thought I’d see a lounge like the Turkish Airlines/Star Alliance one in Istanbul’s Ataturk...
...Bailey Robinson (baileyrobinson.com) offers three nights at Virunga Lodge (volcanoessafaris.com) including meals and transfers from Kigali, from £2,395 … Pico Iyer A sanctuary in Windhoek Namibia is...
...Pico Iyer: Curry in Cuba Twenty-five years ago, I used to go to Cuba every year, and the joy of it then was the illusion that I had the whole island to myself, touristically speaking....
...Mikitani says he set up his company with “no VC, no grey hair”, which I take to mean no venture capital and no seasoned management....
...Pico Iyer’s most recent book, ‘The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama’, is out in paperback from Bloomsbury in the UK and Vintage in the US...
...Pico Iyer’s ‘The Open Road’, a book on the Dalai Lama, was published earlier this year...
...Pico Iyer’s most recent book, ‘The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’, is published by Alfred A Knopf in the US this month and by Bloomsbury in the UK in May...
...Go to breakfast at the new Moonpeak Café down the road, with its strong Earl Grey tea and world-class apple pies....
...I'm tempted to flout cheese convention with one of the more recherché fabulously powerful blue cheeses imported by Brindisa, such as Picos di Europa (£17 per kg)....
International Edition