The Faroe Islands: Isolated Beauty

Photographer Julian Calverley recently got a job in Faroe Islands, in the Kingdom of Denmark. He used the frequent dead times during the...

The Golden Age of Air Travel

FROM LUXURY DINING TO GLAMOROUS GUESTS AND ACRES OF SPACE, RETRO PHOTOS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF AIR TRAVEL It's hard to...

British Zen: The Shipping Forecast

BBC Shipping Forecast When I was a child I would sit in my Grandfather's garden shed (home to all that is manly in Northern England), drink...

The Art of Holiday Packing

As you know we can be a bit obsessive about things.  The art of packing for travel is no exception. Years of crisscrossing the globe have taught us...

Our top 10 cities to get lost in

Lost Cities were real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that fell into terminal decline and whose location was later lost. Most...

Imperial Black: Sao Paulo City Guide

  We love Sao Paulo for many reasons but a favorite might be the beautiful Jardins district with it's lush gardens, incredible restaurants,...

it’s already yesterday

The tinkering about is finished.  The attendant has quietly removed my g&t in anticipation and the engines begin their thrum. There is...

Riding Summer’s Doldrums

  It's that time of year. Summer's doldrums are upon us.  We are finished with Royal Ascot, the clamor of Pitti Uomo in Florence has...

Meridian- Neither Here Nor There

Its the Meridian, that imaginary half of a great circle, curving from pole to pole that has us thinking about our journeys as of late. Where are we...

Journeys Near and Far

Far too often we talk about the far-flung and the exotic, but what of the journeys closer to home? The amble down a country lane with a Robin's nest...

Obsessions: 1973 Ferrari Dino 246 GT

The lines of the Ferrari Dino GT  first appealed to me in slot car form as a child.  Since then the "budget" Ferrari named after Enzo's son has...

Brothers of the Cloth: M.W.

We always love it when we have a visitor at our North American outpost.  It provides a great opportunity to sit down and have some in depth talks...

Obsessions: Moto Guzzi

  At this point we are unsure if our Guzzi lust has moved from beyond the realms of mere obsession to something else entirely.  Despite the fact...

From an Olive Grove in Marrakech

We often talk about the resonance that we feel in moving through a landscape as we search for our one of a kind goods.  We immerse ourselves in the...

Traveling & Writing

  "My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point...