The
Times
Nordic Nirvana (Alesund)
The Norwegians have a saying: “I haven’t seen anything like it since
Alesund burned down”. Now the place tops national polls as Norway’s
most beautiful town so it was clearly some rebuilding job.
London
Evening Standard
Along Britain's Top Edge
My ticket is enticing enough by itself. I'm headed, it says, for "the
most remote point in Britain" - where better to start a journey along
Scotland's top edge? Waiting patiently by the tiny jetty at Keoldale, I'm reminded
that time can be an elastic concept hereabouts. "When someone says a thing
leaves at 11 that just means it won't leave before 11", as one local had
put it.
Bee
Magazine
Twain in paradise (Hawaii Big Island)
In 1866 a relatively unknown journalist by the name of Samuel Clemens
- better known now as Mark Twain - arrived in what were then the Sandwich
Islands to write a series of Letters From Hawaii for the Sacramento Union
newspaper. He intended to stay a month but wound up spending nearer six. "If
I could have my way," he wrote later, "I would go back there
and remain the rest of my days."