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...

Elizabethtown Amtrak Station. June 2021 Life was roller-coastering for everyone. We were living through COVID. Cases were down - was...

January 2001 Ayer's Rock (Uluru) is striking. Uluru is an inselberg, meaning "island mountain". An inselberg is a prominent isolated...

July 2017 On one of my many visits to Bacolod, JRC took me down to the moribund Bacolod Baywalk Recreational Park. Unlike the...

February 2001 We were late to learn about South America. Brian had done a World Bank project in Peru and loved it just after Georgetown....

August 2017 On my "atypical for Europe" small white van tour out of Lisbon to visit Sintra, a lot of other smaller stops were included. ...

April 2012 On a very strong recommendation from my cousin/sister EHJ, I just had to see Windsor on my next trip to London. Since it was...

July 2016 In Bologna I cemented my relationship with aperitivo. Throughout the city's medieval alleys and piazzas on late summer...

August 2020 The column was dedicated on May 11, 330 AD, with a mixture of Christian and pagan ceremonies. In Constantine's day the...

December 2007 Marble Mountains is a cluster of five marble and limestone hills located in Ngũ Hành Sơn District, south of Da Nang city in...

December 2019 Underappreciated On my day of wandering in Fes, I stumbled across this complex of buildings. The Kairaouine Mosque and...

March 1993 remnants Esslingen was occupied by U.S. troops starting in April 1945, at the very end of World War II. During the war the...