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...

Trencin Castle. April 2019 On my mostly rain-cursed stay in Vienna, I did have a few sunny days. I made the most of them by taking day...

Varkala Beach, Kerala. February 2010 Notes from the Kerala Holiday: After finishing the famous Kerala Backwater tour on a traditional...

Cathedral entrance La Petite France La Petite France, Strasbourg. March 1993 First visit to France! On Matt's First Big Trip to...

Somewhere a few miles from the Kennedy Space Center. March 1988 We were in Orlando visiting Disney and heard there was to be a space...

Alhambra Palace, Granada. January 2018 The highlight of my week in Antequera [see: Antequera] was the visit to Alhambra in Granada. ...

Schaffhausen. March 1993 After visiting the famously disappointing Rheinfall [see: Rheinfall], on our way back to Germany we had to pass...

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...