Category: Travel
Sixteen miles north of Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago complete the West Indian arc of islands. The two islands are separated by a twenty-one mile channel. Tobago is sleepy if …
North of Guadeloupe are St. Maarten/St. Martin and St. Barthelemy. The island of St. Maarten is spelled two ways for a reason. About half is Dutch controlled; the other …
While Amtrak is a shadowy ghost of the once proud rail system in the United States, British Rail is still the prime mover of people in the United Kingdom. …
Barbados is quite British. It sits about two hundred miles north and to the east of Trinidad. Its population of 300,000 crowds the 166 square-mile island, which depends upon …
The Turks and the Caicos, located at the southern end of the Bahama chain, did not choose to join the Bahamas as a separate nation and remain dependencies of …
Wales has relatively good roads. Train service is also good, except on Sundays when nearly everything closes down. All Wales is castle country, most of them built by the …
TRAVEL CAPSULE GEOGRAPHY The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland lies off the northwest coast of the European Continent, separated from it by the English Channel, the …
Swinging west again, Grenada (pronounced Gre-nay-da) and the Grenadines continue the West Indian arc of islands. Stretched within sight of each other, the Grenadines form a beautiful chain of …