Issue 31 – Work It Out

The Laws Of Nature

  Roaming the swamplands around his home in New York State as a child, James Thornton knew he had a passion. He loved the insects, the vegetation and most of…

Undersea Magic

    Sublime: How and when did you start exploring the underwater world, and narrating your experiences through photography? Troy Mayne: I started diving when I was 19. My first…

Getting Closer

  More than four decades ago, a Danish man called Jan Gudmand-Hoyer had a vision. He was an architect who dreamed of creating a place where people of all ages…

A Green New World

Some say travel is a human right, others that it is a luxury. With climate change and global shortages on the one hand, and the fact that the tourist industry…

Under Their Own Steam

In 1997, the Isle of Eigg was the focus of international attention, with headlines sweeping the globe to places as far away as New Zealand, the US, Bonn and Buenos…

Great Expectations

In the opening chapter of his biography, Dickens, Peter Ackroyd points out the parallels between our time and that of the Victorians. Dickens’s death came as evidence of a giant…

Catch Me If You Can

My day had been humming like a finely tuned machine. I had just got all my work up to date, the 2012 dates and venue for our festival – Vintage – had…