Canada, eh? I could tell you I moved here for the raccoons and bears and the advocacy of lumberjack chic, but these are mere perks. (Although have not seen enough raccoons. Or any bears. And still trying to figure out where the lumberjacks hang out.) I moved here because I wanted – needed – greater proximity to the wild outdoors. Big Nature. To be totally honest […]
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In Search of the Sólheimasandur DC-3
The plane has been there since 1973. To look at the thing now – the torso of an aircraft, riddled with bullets, left to erode on a black beach in southern Iceland – you’d imagine something sinister happened. A tragic crash, a plane shot down in battle, a Bermuda-triangle-style missing airliner. The eeriness of this rusting wreck is its greatest allure. If you’d prefer to keep it […]
To The Lighthouse – Switching Off in Suffolk
“There’s something about being near the ocean”, said the taxi driver. He was a retired police officer, a sturdy, almost gruff fellow – he hardly seemed the sentimental type. But the sea does something to us all. “I can just sit and watch the waves, and feel content”, he said, sounding surprisingly wistful. This is precisely […]