The elegant houses, Portuguese in style, are painted in bright colours – yellow, blue, pink, orange and claret. The sky above is an impossible blue, the air silent, languid, punctuated […]

The sunlight filters through the leaves of tall coconuts, making a pretty mosaic on the red soil. Quaint cottages, with thatched, sloping roofs and neat courtyards peak out of the […]

In the evenings, the tall coconut trees on the coast sway in the wind. At nights, the moonlight ripples on the sea, shimmering and dancing in a wild abandon. But […]

The sea is a wonderful shade of blue, iridescent and sparkling in the summer sun. The toasty, golden beach embraces the sea lazily, curving around the bay in languid grace. […]

They assured me before I landed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that yes, everyone would speak English and no, Puerto Rico did not want to be a country outside of […]