Diamond Jubilee: Ohio City, Cleveland
West Side Market Downtown from the Columbus Road Bridge June 2021 I arrived at the Greyhound Station in Cleveland after crossing the...
Spain: Sitges
July 2015 Sitges had been recommended to me by AFVdR as a nice seaside town south of Barcelona. I even considered staying there instead...
Italy: Riomaggiore
February 2019 Riomaggiore was the first of the Cinque Terre towns I visited on a day trip from Genoa. I figured it made sense to go...
Diamond Jubilee: William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh
June 2021 Built from 1915 to 1916, the $6 million William Penn opened on March 11, 1916, in what newspapers hailed as the Grandest Hotel...
Spain: Vigo
Aperitivo. July 2017 The first city I reached in Galicia after departing Porto, Portugal (by train) was Vigo. I had never heard of it...
England: St Pancras Station, London
April 2012 Darling station of film and TV, St Pancras is one of those London landmarks that is iconic even for people who have never been...
Italy: Naples Bay
December 2018 Walking along the Naples waterfront I discovered Molosiglio Gardens with its stunning view over the Bay of Naples and Mt...
Diamond Jubilee: departure
Elizabethtown Amtrak Station. June 2021 Life was roller-coastering for everyone. We were living through COVID. Cases were down - was...
Iraq: Badge of Honor
Badge of Honor, Ministry of Defense, Ukraine Prologue Nohadra is the Assyrian name for Dohuk, Kurdistan, Iraq. This place has been around...
Bangladesh: delivery bicycles
July 2022 The lowly tricycle flatbed deliverymen are the backbone of moving things around Bangladesh. Upon first glance, people from...
Australia: Ayer's Rock
January 2001 Ayer's Rock (Uluru) is striking. Uluru is an inselberg, meaning "island mountain". An inselberg is a prominent isolated...
Philippines: a slum with a view, Bacolod
July 2017 On one of my many visits to Bacolod, JRC took me down to the moribund Bacolod Baywalk Recreational Park. Unlike the...
Argentina: San Carlos de Bariloche
February 2001 We were late to learn about South America. Brian had done a World Bank project in Peru and loved it just after Georgetown....
Portugal: Boca do Inferno, Caiscais
August 2017 On my "atypical for Europe" small white van tour out of Lisbon to visit Sintra, a lot of other smaller stops were included. ...
England: Chapel at Eton
April 2012 On a very strong recommendation from my cousin/sister EHJ, I just had to see Windsor on my next trip to London. Since it was...
Italy: aperitivo, Bologna
July 2016 In Bologna I cemented my relationship with aperitivo. Throughout the city's medieval alleys and piazzas on late summer...
Istanbul: Column of Constantine
August 2020 The column was dedicated on May 11, 330 AD, with a mixture of Christian and pagan ceremonies. In Constantine's day the...
Vietnam: The Marble Mountains, Danang
December 2007 Marble Mountains is a cluster of five marble and limestone hills located in Ngũ Hà nh Sơn District, south of Da Nang city in...
Morocco: Kairaouine University, Fes
December 2019 Underappreciated On my day of wandering in Fes, I stumbled across this complex of buildings. The Kairaouine Mosque and...
Germany: Esslingen
March 1993 remnants Esslingen was occupied by U.S. troops starting in April 1945, at the very end of World War II. During the war the...