Alamo, San Antonio, TX. January 1984 Misión San Antonio de Valero On my winter trip to Texas in January 1984 I spent a lot of time in...

Seaside Esplanade, Al Muttrah. March 2016 If in the pre-modern age, Muscat was really Oman, then Al Muttrah port was really Muscat. ...

Second Station Beach, Boracay. February 2011 That Boracay Vacation Chinese New Year was approaching and we wanted to get out of...

Doha. March 2015 I wasn't even supposed to visit Qatar. I had a whole trip planned to Bangladesh, but there was political unrest and my...

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. April 2019 What a strangely translated name into English, but in German it must sound less didactic...

Alcazaba, Antequera, Spain. January 2018 The Heart of Andalucia Even southern Spain in January is cold, and Antequera is not on the...

Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria April 2019 One surprise discovery on my mostly rainy Vienna holiday was the small Albertina Museum. ...

Cape Byron, New South Wales, Australia April 2006 On the Brisbane trip to Australia, one of the highlights of that journey was to be...

Spotti Cafe, Alassio. February 2019 It was late February on the Ligurian coast so I really couldn't hope for balmy weather. Based in...

Amwaj Island, Bahrain. March 2015 Final hours in Bahrain I started my short time in Bahrain with my Saudi friends from Abha, but ended...

Longhouse, Batang Ai, Sarawak, Malaysia. February 1997 Headhunters!!! On the Big Borneo Adventure we ended up at a Hilton property in...

High speed rail terminus, Station Casa-Voyageurs, Casablanca, Morocco. December 2019 The Casa-Voyageurs Railway Station was directly...

Palacsinta, Baross Gábor utca, Györ, Hungary. April 2019 [from FB post: May 16, 2019] "Palatschinke" - this brought back great memories ...

Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul, Brno, Czech Republic. April 2019 Pivovar Lucky Bastard, Brno. April 2019 When I was kid, I think in...

Latte macchiato, Mediterraneo, Quartiere la Venezia Fortezza Vecchia Fried Calamari, Il Chiosco del Porto February 2019 Leghorn Leave...

Old City, Colmar, France. March 1993 On the visit to Strasbourg, France on Matt's First Great German Adventure, we drove south a short...

Danaudurchbruch bei Weltenburg, Bavaria, Germany. 1996 On another of Matt's Great German Adventures (the first spawned two more visits),...

Mia-gao Church, Panay Island, Philippines. January 2016 Santo Tomás de Villanueva Parish Church was actually the inspiration for my...

Cordoba Gate San Pedro Church, Carmona, Spain. January 2017 Anyone based in Seville looking for good day trips will come across Carmona....

Millenium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angles, CA. April 1990 The start of something big Back in the early '90s, law school students from the Ivy...