INSPIRATION

The 23,000 acre Alladale Wilderness Reserve is an unprecedented attempt at private conservancy, nestled in glacial valleys, fringed by Scotland’s small remaining Caledonian pine forest. It’s home to one of Europe’s most eco-friendly hospitality operations, to more than a million new trees, to reintroduced red squirrels but –…

2021’s World Oceans Day focuses on something that the world has recently learnt – that every aspect of our world is connected and interrelated. The aim is to influence decisions being made by global leaders and encourage them to protect 30% of our oceans by 2030. We all…

If you love to travel, then you know there’s nothing better than being able to share a travel adventure with family and friends. And this new form of travel, reunion travel, also called bubble travel, allows private groups to decide on a location for their exclusive use, plan…

For many of us, spring is the moment when we slough off our long dormant season and enter the world again. We’ve had a year of down-time, spinning our wheels, planning our futures, hanging out with our bubbles and support groups, going nowhere, doing little … it would…

The impact of travel on an individual can be literally life-changing. Elizabeth Barrett Browning existed as a recluse in poor health until she met Robert Browning and they eloped to Italy, where her health condition improved and they lived happily as nomadic travellers. The world could have lost…

April 12th is the International Day of Human Space Flight, and in our lifetime we may make the ‘leap’ from space flight being an elitist pursuit to a mainstream activity. It is a reward for outstanding achievement and a scientific lodestone containing answers to questions about the origin…

22 April is Earth Day, designed not just to acknowledge our debt to the planet, but to encourage action that will help preserve our world and improve it.

The United Nations measures happiness globally as well. In 2020, Finland was named the happiest country in the world for the third year running. On the other hand, many countries have established government and ministry roles for Happiness, such as the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.

Today, after a period of living in lockdowns and quarantines, most of us have come to reevaluate this most commonplace and yet most remarkable of experiences. We’ve been starved of hugs and laughter, deprived of the subtle richness of body language and many of us haven’t met somebody…

The importance of having a more gender balanced board, management or leadership team is a work in progress. For instance, the current legislation in The Netherlands to ensure more women have seats on company boards has not worked and a quota system is the only way forward, according…