Quiet

Think of the Greek Islands as one big happy family — there’s the alluring jet-setter (Mykonos), the extrovert that will always get the party started (Corfu), and then, the quietly natural beauty (Kefalonia).It’s had its share of…

As you approach the small town of Green Bank in West Virginia, signs warn that you are entering the ‘Quiet Zone’ - an area where cellphones and Wi-Fi are banned.It’s one of the few places on Earth where people are not connected 24 hours…

Locals slam 'self-entitled' tourists for ruining quiet seaside towns by dumping litter and treating their beaches as car parks - as latest 'rude' visitors drive 4x4s onto the sands and have a BBQLocals have said its 'totally…

The anhinga devil bird is perched on a branch, wings outstretched to dry in the afternoon sun.Its silhouette resembles Batman crossed with a piano, thanks to alternating black-and-white wing feathers. A fish has just slipped down its…

'Where the skies are so blue,’ the late Ronnie Van Zant sang in the country music classic Sweet Home Alabama, in a southern drawl full of conviction. Looking out from my seafront balcony, he certainly seems to have got that right.As the…