AN AFTERNOON IN MONTEPULCIANO The crown jewel of the Tuscan region (no points for guessing) is its world class red wines. Yet so many tastings today feel rushed and clinical, an item to check off rather than an experience to…
IVALO – FINLAND | AN ANNIVERSARY STORY If someone had told me a decade ago that I would one day cross a frozen river flanked by reindeer, be pulled through a snow blanketed forest by a pack of wild eyed…
When a packed Norwegian airline can provide me with only a middle seat in the aircraft but my co passenger gently asks if I would like to take her window seat, I instantly know this is a sign of an amazing…
FROM THE FORESTS TO THE NORDIC KITCHENS Finland’s relationship with its food landscape was transformed in the 2010s when the New Nordic wave reframed what had been considered subsistence cooking as something worth celebrating. When Finnish chefs began looking at…
THE PROFOUND SILENCE OF THE NORTH Places: Tromsø, Alta, Nordkapp, Narvik and Senja The winters in Northern Norway is not for the faint hearted. But as they say in Scandinavia, there is no bad weather, only bad choice of clothes!…
