Lockdown 2025

6 November, 2025

Lockdown 2025

By Geoff Chaplin

We got back in the afternoon having spent several days in Osaka – for the centre of Hokkaido it was a reasonable temperature, around 9 degrees (48 in old money), but in the even...

13 July, 2025

The Winter Heart of the Tatras

By Lubomir Drapal

The Tatras are the highest peaks of the Carpathians, and I wouldn’t hesitate to call them the national treasure of Slovakia—though a small part stretches gracefully into Poland....