March 1993 On Matt's First Big Trip to Germany, the first place MAP and I visited after I was settled in Stuttgart was Burg Hohenzollern....

Emmanuel College. King's College Chapel. April 2012 an afterthought... I had begged Adrian FVdR to go with me to Ely to see the...

December 2003 The Hill Club was founded in 1876 by W.H. Walker, J. Wickwar and H. Saunders and started with only a billiard room and a...

August 2020 [from FB post: March 6, 2014] As far as I know, Russia is now defending two seaports which seem to be somewhat irrelevant in...

July 1989 PROLOGUE Only after starting to work at NYU did I understand that I received six weeks of paid vacation per year! That easily...

April 2006 too late We arrived in Brisbane, rented a car, and headed south immediately. Our goal was Byron Bay [see: Byron Bay] via a...

August 2017 The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in...

June 2018 what makes a wall famous? The security fence that runs across Israel's own territory divides Israel from the West Bank (which...

door, Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Carthusian Charterhouse...

Capital Park Negros Oriental Capitol Building San Sebastian Cathedral. June 2016 turning around perceptions Bacolod was my first solo...

June 2019 Sayyidat al-Nouriyyeh An old shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary was in a room on the ground floor of a building in Souk...

October 2019 My absolute favorite thing in Dubai is riding the abra across Dubai Creek. From my point of view, if a visitor to Dubai...

Koppelpoort. July 2017 The Netherlands on the Cheap No two ways about it, the Netherlands is expensive. It is also an amazingly easy...

June 2018 On my week of daytrips from Madrid, Alcalá de Henares was high on the list to visit. An old Roman city halfway between...

June 2018 Writing I Textbook as Travel Guide (Part II) On my second trip to Jordan I requested NH to take me to Jebel Al Webdeh because...

July 1988 Arches National Park was my first real "Western National Park" and holds a special place in my heart. I had been in Denver to...

April 1998. 上有天堂，下有苏杭 [Literally: up there is Heaven, down here there are Suzhou and Hangzhou] dreams On my famous first trip to Shanghai...

December 2019 Fez was high on my list of places to visit in Morocco, but I will admit to some trepidation before going. Fez was also...

Synagogue, Jewtown, Kochi. February 2010 ... it was believed that the earliest Jews in India were sailors from King Solomon's time. It...

Festival City, Dubai. May 2016 bar reviews As I have mentioned in the past, I came to know about Hard Rock Cafe in Kuala Lumpur [see:...