Category Archives for "Responsible Travel"

I’m far from the first to string those four words together. Legendary journalist Kate Adie looped them in a line to describe her autobiography; Vivien Leigh sighed them in A Streetcar Named Desire. Writing courses rail against them and editors hang their heads and demand something fresh.

I’ve even…

One of the most interesting parts of this job involves heading behind the scenes and talking to people about what they do. Formula One Race Engineers, Underwater Photographers. Even, poignantly, a survivor from the Nagasaki Atom Bomb drop. But today I’m talking to the experts at Adobe about travel technology and where it’s taking us. […]

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights These are the two core questions that emerge through a visit to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. They bubble up through the purpose-built pathway that coils from the charcoal basement to the glass-lit summit 100 metres above the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. This is the only museum of its kind in […]

A Question of Space It’s amazing how much you think about space when do you don’t have any any more. When you’re cramped on a train. Pressed tight in a crowd. Or peculiarly, when faced with such a wide expanse of natural space, of incredible beauty, that you cannot venture into unarmed. I felt this […]

When it comes to “Top Ten” lists, I find them fun but I never take them seriously. So when an email landed in my ludicrously overpopulated inbox with the subject “The Top Ten Ethical Destinations,” my cynical old heart sank a little. Why?

The incredible story of the Red Cross, the foundation of the world’s first humanitarian aid organisation and the challenges that face all those who try to make the world a better place.