July 2017. still rockin' in old Philly Roman Theatre of Amman is a 6,000-seat, 2nd-century Roman theatre. A famous landmark in the...

Plaza Mayor. June 2018 During the 1950s, the Corral de Comedias was discovered and restored. The Town Hall and Plaza Mayor were also...

December 2019 the ends of the earth Volubilis is a partly excavated Roman city in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes, and may have...

July 1998 The time spent in Victoria Falls [see: Victoria Falls] was the highlight of the trip to Southern Africa. Brian and I...

On my second trip to Madurai, the brothers MP took me on a temple drive north of the Sivaganga. It was like discovering an ancient (and...

January 1993 the ground zero of youth Queenstown, New Zealand on the end of lovely lake Wakatipu overlooking the Remarkables (a mountain...

City Square Cathedral October 2011 The official founding story of Las Peñas (and thus of Puerto Vallarta) is that it was founded by...

Main Square, Plzeň. July 2019 Beer Hajj Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the...

March 2015 hotel voyeurism At one time or another everyone has become a "hotel voyeur" - stopping by to see a hotel property with no...

March 2016 Aqeel Mosque, which was built in 1779, is the oldest mosque in Salalah. https://www.omanobserver.om/article/31638/Features/mos...

April 1998 This was my third visit to Yonghe Temple because along with the Forbidden City, it was high on anyone's list in Beijing. The...

December 2005 [from FB post: January 9, 2011] Just arrived in Penang, Malaysia. Look forward to see my old friend M and eating some good...

Khone Pha Pheng Waterfall, Mekong River. August 2007 We flew to Pakse and arranged a car to take us Khone Pha Pheng Falls, one of the...

April 2019 context The Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum is among the world’s most important...

March 2015 I remember my Saudi friend Meshal used to be the lone member of our coffee clutch from Java Beans in Abha who traveled...

July 2019 Highly recommended by MS, fellow world-traveler and photographer, I went out to visit Devin Castle on my second visit to...

December 2007 the persistence of media Vietnam has some spectacular beaches. One of the most famous is in Đà Nẵng. In the case of...

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...