As posh as it gets in London, Kensington is about staggering wealth, boutiques, rows of elegant townhouses, a royal palace and lots of European embassies. Kensington is also a cultural quarter extraordinaire, with three of the UK’s best museums on a single street. The Natural History Museum and Victoria & Albert are world leaders in …
The home of black pudding, this town to the north of Manchester has a lot more going for it than sausage. Of course, meat-eaters have to sample that black pudding at Bury’s award-winning market as a priority. But there’s also a rich cultural menu, at the Bury Art Museum and live music venues like the …
If you’re going to Downtown Tampa, then you are in for a good time. The Downtown neighborhood of Tampa is one and a third square miles crammed full of fantastic things to do. Downtown Tampa is fronted on two sides by water, the Hillsborough River on the west and Tampa Bay to the south, and …
Downtown Austin may have been founded on a six-hundred-acre plot and have consisted of no more than fourteen blocks, but two hundred years on things have certainly changed. Downtown Austin, flanked by a broad stretch of the Colorado River, now incorporates eight districts and covers an area much larger than the original town plan. While …
A few short miles north of Oxford, Bicester is a market town with a pretty centre. People have been trading in the heart of the town for almost 800 years, but nowadays Bicester is associated with a more exclusive kind of commerce. On the edge of town, Bicester Village is a designer outlet mall that …
Also known as Barrow, Utqiaġvik is the northern most settlement in US Alaska. The traditional name was voted back in 2016 to support the preservation of the Inupiaq language. A gateway to the Arctic ocean, the history in this part of the world dates back to 500 AD with whaling and fishing being the livelihood …
At the centre of the Aleutian Islands, Unalaska has a long and interesting history. From the original inhabitants of nine thousand years ago. To the Russian fur traders who made this place their headquarters, the role in World War Two, to present day. There are plenty of places to explore on the island and many …
As I explored the charming town of El Mirage, Arizona, I couldn’t help but marvel at its transformation from a remote cattle outpost to a burgeoning suburb of Phoenix. This city, once considered distant, is now experiencing rapid growth at an unimaginable pace. Nestled in the northwest corner of the Valley of the Sun, El …
I recently visited Apache Junction, a small town located about 35 minutes east of Phoenix in the remote Superstition Mountains. I was immediately drawn to its rich history and stunning natural beauty. As an old mining town, Apache Junction is full of hard-luck stories and local legends. I loved learning about the town’s history and …
As you journey along the iconic Route 66, spanning from Chicago to LA, you’ll come across the historic city of Kingman in Northwest Arizona. This city holds a significant place in the route’s history. As Bobby Troup’s famous song from 1946 reminds us, Kingman is one of the cities you’ll pass through, offering a glimpse …