Mrs Chin started spinning the long piece of white sugar dough so fast it was impossible to see, counting aloud as her hands twirled and doubled the number of strands – 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512! With a deft flick she curled a piece of this white magic into...

It may be hard to imagine, when there are sky scrapers far as the eye can see, busy streets and hundreds of yellow taxis, but just a short drive out of New York City you can find some beautiful natural spaces. When you’ve worn yourself out pounding the pavements of...

This month’s World Travel Blogger, Shara Johnson, lives in Nederland and it sounds like one of the quirkiest places in America! Discover why here … I love running across the accounts of people who have visited my small town, Nederland, Colorado. Almost without fail, their assessment of Nederland (“Ned” to...

In this fascinating article in the World Travel Blogger Series, Linda Wainwright tells how a 1990s film triggered a trip to one of America’s more out-of-the-way places.  The movie Message in a Bottle inspired my interest in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and via subsequent reading of Nicholas Sparks, I realized...

What do an old mining town, a folk art museum and a gas museum have in common? They’re all very unusual. If you’re visiting Santa Fe and you’re a fan of things that are a bit quirky or off centre, don’t miss these attractions. In the 3rd of our World Travel...

In the first of our ‘World Travel Blogger’ series of articles, American Dr Jessie Voigts, of Wandering Educators, shares her love of travel and art with a look at a very unusual family attraction in the USA. Looking for a quirky outdoor adventure among art? If you’re anywhere near Michigan, take...

So what is Seattle famous for, apart from a cracker of a place to be sleepless in? Well there is the legacy of the great fire of 1889, which devastated downtown Seattle but furnished civic leaders an opportunity to make good out of the bad planning that had gone before...