South Island, Lake Hawea. January 1993 Kiwi Experience When Brian and I went to New Zealand our time was divided into two distinct...

Old City walls, Jerusalem. June 2018 [from FB post: June 24, 2018} Ben Gurion Airport security. Scary strict. Stupid questions... I mean...

Albenga. February 2019 After my kind of letdown with Alassio [see: Alassio], I had higher hopes for Albenga. Travel-related writing on...

Cebu City Bus Terminal, June 2016 Liloan, Cebu with Negros in the backdrop, ferry terminal. June 2016 [from FB post: June 22, 2015]...

Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar. March 2019 Airport Review: Occasionally, a traveler gets to pass through a just-opened airport...

Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives. June 2018 [from FB post: June 17, 2018} I climbed many steps to the Mount of Olives and watched...

Marina, Dubai Festival City. April 2011 Of Belgian Beer, the Hard Rock Cafe, and an Opera House On a visit to Kuala Lumpur years ago to...

Fighting cock, Biliran. June 2016 [from FB post: June 21, 2015] (Bacolod) There is a morning rooster market near my hotel where guys...

Restaurant signboard (not my photo) [from FB post: August 8, 2016] Menu del dia is a cheap two course daily lunch at most restaurants in...

Lake Wakatipu, Flight from Queenstown to Milford Sound. January 1993 Brian, MAP, and I found a tour to the famously beautiful Milford...

Great Wall. April 1998 I visited the Great Wall of China three times: the first, because I was in Beijing and it was high on my list,...

Old city View of the Old Bridge over the Neckar from Heidelberg Castle. March 1993 Heidelberg holds a dear place in my heart. It was...

Iloilo to Guimaras Ferry Green Mango Juice, Guimeras Island. January 2016 A new drink One of the days we were in Iloilo, JRC and I...

Breakfast at McDonald's with a latte, Muscat. March 2016 I might seem odd to have a visit to McD's etched in my travel memory, but I do. ...

Port, Tacloban, Leyte. June 2016 [from FB post: November 12, 2013] Watching BBC every morning before work and wondering how BBC (and...

Rainy day. Prado Museum, Madrid. June 2018 [from FB post: June 8, 2018] Museum Review : the Prado Surprising amount of Italian and...

Falls of the Rhine, Schaffhausen/Zurich Canton border. March 1993 The falls of the Rhine in Switzerland effectively block the river from...

Richmond, London. April 2012 On one of my visits to London, Adrian FVdR and I were exploring along the banks of the Thames and ended up...

Sirkeci Station Main Entrance Sirkeci Station lobby Former portal to the boats across the Bosphorus behind Sirkeci Station. August 2020...

South Street Seaport. July 2010 I am usually the guy who hates the touristy places that everyone else visits, but I give an exemption to...