Travel

By Jack Souther With her blasphemous captain lashed to the helm and her ghostly crew battling a perpetual gale the Flying Dutchman is doomed to sail until judgment day into the teeth of a storm without ever rounding the Cape of Good Hope.

Story and photos by Allison Gagnon Tucked away, along the rolling hillsides and behind the vast, dark mountains of Croatia, I found an untouched piece of paradise.

Story and photos by Jack Souther I must have read these words a dozen times before I came to Africa.

"Look! There it is! Table Mountain! Cape Town! The most beautiful city in the best country in the world." The faint profile of Table Mountain is barely visible against the distant horizon but Odie is elated.

Story and photos by Alison Lapshinoff The sturdy wooden outhouse was of sound construction in comparison to its unruly neighbours. Elevated slightly, its lofty platform faced westward and took in the sweeping panorama that was the moody Indian Ocean.

Beer and chocolate

Meridian Writers’ Group HONG KONG–Horse racing in Hong Kong goes back more than 150 years, and while tourists bargain for designer bags or digital gadgets, residents are found at the racetrack.

On the ill-fated morning of Aug. 6 th , 1945 a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gray dropped the first nuclear bomb ever used on populated target, annihilating the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

Meridian Writers’ Group COOBER PEDY, Australia — We rolled out our swags beneath the shade of a coolibah tree, and waited while the billy boiled.

In the year 1887 an exodus of American treasure seekers flocked north of the border to cash in on the discovery of silver ore in the Kootenay district of British Columbia. The new provincial government watched in despair as B.C.