Travel writers need to look beyond resorts. Under old mats in a small hut, Julia finds a delicious story in the form of furry guinea pigs. Robin heads to the mountains to meet a shaman, only to discover he's been cursed.
The traffic, chaos, and 3000 years of bureaucracy can take their toll, so Robin and Julia choose to belly dance over the Nile. After a visit to the pyramids, Robin heads south to the Sinai desert for fun with an ATV, dirt bike, and dune buggy while Julia, following in the footsteps of her travel writing mother, learns about Egyptian aromatherapy and its role in modern day spa life.
Michael and Charlie visit Rioja, Spain, starting at the winery Bodega Iniesta, owned by the father of the famous Spanish Soccer Star Andres Iniesta.
Michael and Charlie travel to San Silvestro in Piedmont, Italy, to learn about the importance of rich carbonate soil and aging in large barrels to produce top quality Barolo wines.
Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is a young city undergoing rapid change and development within a fragile governmental framework while the island boasts one of the highest economic growth rates in Asia, it maintains a tenuous relationship with China.
This part of our journey, Epirus, starts in the wilderness near the Albanian border.
The traffic, chaos, and 3000 years of bureaucracy can take their toll, so Robin and Julia choose to belly dance over the Nile. After a visit to the pyramids, Robin heads south to the Sinai desert for fun with an ATV, dirt bike, and dune buggy while Julia, following in the footsteps of her travel writing mother, learns about Egyptian aromatherapy and its role in modern day spa life.
Michael and Charlie visit Rioja, Spain, starting at the winery Bodega Iniesta, owned by the father of the famous Spanish Soccer Star Andres Iniesta.
Michael and Charlie travel to San Silvestro in Piedmont, Italy, to learn about the importance of rich carbonate soil and aging in large barrels to produce top quality Barolo wines.
Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is a young city undergoing rapid change and development within a fragile governmental framework while the island boasts one of the highest economic growth rates in Asia, it maintains a tenuous relationship with China.
This part of our journey, Epirus, starts in the wilderness near the Albanian border.
In order to thrive in such rugged conditions, locals have become extremely resourceful.
Honolulu has the most advanced telecommunications in the world.
In the Catalans, Gérard discovers Prat chicken, snails, eels and beautiful rice fields in the Ebro Delta Gérard meets filmmaker Isabel Coixet in a tapas bar in Barcelona.
The Channel Islands in all their rich and abundant natural glory, each with its own personality and living conditions and each inspired one way or another by British history and French culture.
Known as the Island of Fire and Ice because of its snow-capped peaks and volcanoes, Hawaii Island, or Big Island, is the largest Hawaiian Island, yet it is the least visited by tourists.
Travelling North-West to the Slanghoek Valley in Rawsonville putting up camp in the heart of the Boland Mountains at the ATKV Goudini Spa Resort.
Travelling South to the Western Cape Province putting up camp next to the Beach at the ATKV Hartenbos Resor.
Robin and Julia head to Terceira, an emerald island in the Azores, for the thrilling summer festivities. Only here do bulls roam the streets, the beaches, and arenas, daring locals, and travel writers, to stare them down. Back over the North Atlantic to Lisbon, our writers explore alternative city tours, including a remarkable sightseeing tour that offers no sight at all.
The moment you step onto the island of Barbados you are wrapped in warmth, sun, and surf, but for travel writers filing stories that means turning vacation activities into story ideas. Robin attacks the turquoise waves from various angles with a Bajan surfing legend while Julia spends a little time up-close and personal with endangered, Hawksbill Turtles.