Finland has long and crispy winters with wonderful snowscapes. Enjoy this magical time by cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling. Spring, on the contrary, is the shortest season in Finland and the time when all the snow starts melting away and flora and fauna retu...
Everything droops, flaps as muscles atrophy, and bellies refuse to retreat. What once provided the calories for a day’s labour now only add to excess. What! You want me to give up chocolate and ice-cream! Is there no joy in ageing? This getting older is not my favourite. What ...
I fixed the rope and rapped to Sous Le Toit. In a brilliant move we decided to fix another rope and retreat to the block. This would allow us a place to stand and walk around and would be fairly comfortable with our portaledge. Our portaledge bivy on the Block. Unlike the previous n...
Perched on the edge of Gauja National Park, this is a unique perspective and takes your espresso on the terrace this is the retreat for those who enjoy nature or just chilling on the terrace with a glass of wine and enjoy a stunning panorama of natural. On our Sigulda journeys trip we ...
Once inside the visitor center I was reminded again of the glacial retreat when looking at glacier photos taken over the years. Like many, I have been concerned about global warming for many years but actually traveling to Alaska and bearing witness to the physical changes in our environment ...
been observed in inking cephalopods. The first is the release of large amounts of ink into the water by the cephalopod in order to create a dark, diffuse cloud (much like a smoke screen) that can obscure the predator’s view, allowing the cephalopod to make a ...
In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares where they could retreat from urban crowd- ing, noise, and filth. Five short years later,...
“eat”); and greets jim, one of his regulars, who sips coffee while looking out over a lake. rodrigo is 35 years old, the son of a surgeon. he’s a fan of the spurs and the cowboys, a former international business student, and a bit of an introvert, happy to retreat into his...
Being almost the only hill in Lincolnshire, the inhabitants seem disposed to make the most of it. The houses on each side had no very remarkable aspect, except one with a stone portal and carved ornaments67, which is now a dwelling-place for poverty-stricken people, but may have been an...
In the centre of the Circus is a space fenced in with iron railing, a small play-place and sylvan9 retreat for the children of the precinct, permeated10 by brief paths through the fresh English grass, and shadowed by various shrubbery; amid which, if you like, you may fancy yourself ...