Take one sandy, barren wasteland, and pump full of oil. Leave to simmer for fifty years et voila; one pulsing, modern metropolis of dizzying skyscrapers and thriving city streets. That’s the recipe for Riyadh, a heaving conurbation of nearly five million citizens that was little more than a provincial town of 80,000 as recently as […]

Nestled amid Cuba’s verdant green interior, Trinidad is a World Heritage protected town that oozes old colonial charm, with a stunning natural setting that rich with the tropical grace of the Caribbean. More than that, the lack of real infrastructure and major hotels means that it has escaped much of the tourist circus that similar […]

A popular postcard sold on the streets of Warsaw shows the old town before and after it was razed by the Nazi bombs in the Second World War. On the left is a black and white photograph of pure destruction. But on the right hand side an image depicts the market square in all its […]