Recently opened in New York, the High Line is a unique new public park as it isn't at ground level, but elevated on the former freight railroad spur called the West Side Line. The park covers 2.33 km (1.45 miles)…

With springtime just around the corner (in the Northern hemisphere at least), some readers may be thinking about booking a holiday. You might expect that spending more money on your hotel would guarantee the best stay, but is this true…

The three Aran Islands are in Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland and are named Inis Mór (Inishmore - Big Island), Inis Meáin (Inishmaan - Middle Island) and Inis Oírr (Inisheer - East Island). Like The Burren, which…

Four weeks ago, Google launched their Street View service in the Republic of Ireland. Google had been capturing pictures1 of Irish cities, towns and countryside over the previous year. So where were you the day the circus came to town?…

Mount Kilimanjaro is an inactive stratovolcano and is the highest mountain in Africa. At 5,893 metres (19,334 ft) above sea level, it is also the tallest freestanding1 mountain in the world. Mount Kilimanjaro is also known for its glaciers at…

We've only ever written one other post about Venezuela, so it's about time we took another trip. We'd like to have crafted a post about the Orinoco River, but sadly there isn't enough of it in high resolution to write…