Pick up any Bermudian Travel Guide or even an international magazine with an article on Bermuda, and you’re sure to see a “Top Ten” list of things to do. Everything from The Unfinished Church to the pink sandy beaches...but my favorite spot to take friends and family who visit is Tom Moore’s Jungle. Tom Moore’s Jungle, also called The Walsingham Nature Reserve, is 12 acres of preserved, privately owned land, which is free to the public to access.

Many cities merit the descriptor “artsy” by offering an abundant selection of artistic experiences for visitors such as galleries and museums, public sculptures and street-performers: evidences of an artistic population, or at the very least, a population with appreciation for the arts.

It was about 74,000 years ago that a volcanic explosion tore a gash sixty miles wide into a section of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was phenomenally loud and violent, spewing an estimated 670 cubic miles of rock and ash into the sky (compare this to the well under one cubic mile that the Mount St. Helens eruption threw up in 1980).