East Side The second day in Cleveland AQ wanted to show me something nice. We drove out to the neighborhood near Case Western Reserve...

January 2020 The village of Segorbe is immersed in a fertile plain, washed by the Palancia river. Its medieval layout conceals several...

April 2012 On one walkabout in London with AFVdR (Brian was with us), we saw a lot of tourist London. We passed under the London Eye...

February 2019 Sanremo has already enjoyed its five minutes of fame (actually several decades). The Sanremo Casino (Casino Municipale di...

December 1985 Background If I didn't believe in fate before, my first trip to Southeast Asia made me at least begin to consider that some...

June 2021 AQ drove us to the lake as it was a part of town he had visited frequently with friends. He noted Cleveland's Amtrak station -...

July 2015 Some historians date the construction of the bridge to the first century A.D. in the times of Emperor Trajan. The bridge...

July 2014 At the confluence of the Grand Union Canal [see: Grand Union Canal ] and the Regents Canal is a boat basin which Londoners have...

July 2016 With dear friend CM and her family, I was spending the day in Venice. Their hotel was near San Marco, so we went for a...

After West Side Market, AQ and I were hungry for something more substantial than snacks. COVID hit a lot of eateries hard in Cleveland,...

January 2020 One thing I love about Spain was how un-seriously it takes even its most venerable of institutions. The curing, cutting,...

September 2008 On my first visit with AFVdR we spent most of that short stay in his neighborhood. I was on the way to Singapore which...

November 2016 Palatine Hill was the residence of the Roman emperors. The ruins are massive - the complex must have been incredible in...

West Side Market Downtown from the Columbus Road Bridge June 2021 I arrived at the Greyhound Station in Cleveland after crossing the...

July 2015 Sitges had been recommended to me by AFVdR as a nice seaside town south of Barcelona. I even considered staying there instead...

February 2019 Riomaggiore was the first of the Cinque Terre towns I visited on a day trip from Genoa. I figured it made sense to go...

June 2021 Built from 1915 to 1916, the $6 million William Penn opened on March 11, 1916, in what newspapers hailed as the Grandest Hotel...

Aperitivo. July 2017 The first city I reached in Galicia after departing Porto, Portugal (by train) was Vigo. I had never heard of it...

April 2012 Darling station of film and TV, St Pancras is one of those London landmarks that is iconic even for people who have never been...

December 2018 Walking along the Naples waterfront I discovered Molosiglio Gardens with its stunning view over the Bay of Naples and Mt...