Santorini, Crete and Zakynthos: Voted In Top Four Islands in Europe

From Kathimerini On TripAdvisor poll

Corfu not in Top Ten

Bermuda: An Andrew Wyeth Watercolour Painting

From The Royal Gazette

A striking Bermuda watercolour by the lauded American artist Andrew Wyeth

A profile at the time of his 80th birthday

Framing "Christina's World"

USA: Forensic Hair Testimony; Evidence Flawed

From The Washington Post

"The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000....The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison".

Corfu, Pink Palace: Rolf Potts Story, A Greek Romance - and other travel stories

A writer I have only just discovered.

From Rolf Potts' blog

A Greek romance

"At Corfu's Pink Palace, the ouzo flows, the crockery flies and the libidos run wild".

More vagabonding stories by Rolf  Potts (no relation)

About Rolf Potts

Going Native in the Australian Outback

The Dark Side of Travel Romance

Around the world on a shoestring

Mr. Universe

Helen of Troy is in my taxi

Why Rolf is travelling around the world with no luggage

Greece: Will Self on Greece; Henry Miller, Colossus of Maroussi, introduction

Will Self's introduction to the second edition of Henry Miller's Colossus of Maroussi

Introduction  Click on "Kindle Edition" below the Look Inside image of the blue book cover on the left.

I had Miller's "The Colossus of Maroussi" in my bags when I first travelled to Greece in 1967. Will Self wishes he had taken it with him when he first went to Greece in the 1970s.

Henry Miller, by George Seferis

Photography: Photographers who refuse to abandon traditional film cameras; Photos by Patrick Joust; Stephen Dowling; Charlie Abiss

From BBC News Magazine

"Film photography was supposed to have been killed off by the digital era - but a committed band of enthusiasts refuse to abandon the traditional camera. Stephen Dowling finds out why for some, film never went out of fashion".