Greenwich College and the landscape of Greenwich Park.

London’s most attraction-packed neighbourhood is where time begins

Britain’s maritime history is here,but you’ll also find London’s answer to the Sistine Chapel and the dividing line between the eastern and western hemispheres.

  • David Whitley
Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome.

No Michelangelo,but Rome’s other Sistine Chapel is just as impressive

The extraordinary is everywhere in the Eternal City,and the best thing about this second Sistine Chapel is that you won’t have to fight through the crowds.

  • David Whitley
The Hoover Dam might be the greatest engineering achievement in history.

Inside one of the greatest engineering achievements in human history

From outside,this vast construction is about size,scale and spectacle. Once inside,it becomes more about appreciating how the whole thing holds together.

  • David Whitley
The colours of Sedona.

America’s most beautiful city is unlike anywhere else

Sedona is like a greatest-hits package of the world’s most beautiful cities,all rolled into one.

  • David Whitley
Sign of the times … blue plaques are all over London.

The signs of a truly great city (London has thousands of them)

Hurtling between conventional attractions without pausing to look and read means you miss out on so much.

  • David Whitley
Advertisement
New look,new feel.

London’s once-awful airport is Europe’s most improved

If they’d only increased the natural light,this could have been a perfect makeover.

  • David Whitley
The Hoover Dam from above.

One of the world’s weirdest cruises is in the heart of a desert

Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that turns out to be real.

  • David Whitley
London Bridge was moved from London to Lake Havasu,Arizona,brick by brick.

How London’s most famous bridge ended up half a world away

London Bridge is falling down? Not quite – it was disassembled and reconstructed brick by brick in another country.

  • David Whitley
West Head Beach… Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park is overlooked by most Sydneysiders.

How travelling with kids made me see Sydney differently

With two youngsters in tow,the city requires a different approach – and a new perspective unveils a very different place.

  • David Whitley
Time the tides right at Burleigh Heads,and a shallow lagoon appears on the sand.

I never liked the Gold Coast. Now,as a parent,I love it

It would be fair to say that I have never previously clicked with the Gold Coast,but returning with kids in tow changed my perspective.

  • David Whitley