July 2017 I was day tripping into Amsterdam from Amersfoort, seeing chunks of the city as time and weather permitted. The day I was in...

December 2003 saved by colonialism Brian and I had come out of the misty tea mountains of Sri Lanka and headed toward beautiful Galle, a...

August 2007 Luang Prabang. The only thing we knew about it was that it had a lot of old temples. That would have been the...

July 2019 I decided to explore Pilsen after my delicious beer and lunch on the town square [see: Plzeň]. The old city center was not...

City Hall Bridge over the Danube to Komárom, Hungary Nádvorie Európy. July 2019 vestiges of an empire Komárno was an easy day trip by...

June 2018 [from FB post: June 22, 2016] Hope At the beach on the Dead Sea. Everyone is wearing what they want, doing what they like, and...

Darsait Viewpoint Qurm Beach Qurm Natural Park Qurm Natural Park Qurm Natural Park. March 2016 [from FB post: March 11, 2016] Muscat...

April 2012 Pastéis de nata Pastéis de nata were created before the 18th century by Catholic monks at the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in the...

November 2004 My final visit to Australia was to the rarely visited "top end". We were exploring Kakadu National Park and other famous...

jungle trek Rafflesia. February 1997 We were actually staying at the swank 5-star Tanjung Aru Resort when we visited Kota Kinabalu. The...

January 1993 When the world finally "discovered" New Zealand via the movies, I was not surprised. On my visit the country very much...

March 1981 Sophomore year at Georgetown held a lot of new adventures for me. I was a member of the "French House" on campus, which was...

December 2007 On our second visit to Vietnam, the drive to Ho Chi Minh City was punctuated with visiting Cham Archeological sites. The...

December 2019 the end approacheth I had spent a very full day in Fez and mostly enjoyed it. It had exceeded my expectations in some...

Kochi, February 2010 Kathakali is a major form of classical Indian dance. It is a "story play" genre of art, but one distinguished by...

April 2019 On my rain-plagued visit to Vienna while working in Iraq, I discovered a branch of the National Library [see: Austrian State...

January-February 2012 The best laid plans.... My dear friend from Tamil Nadu whom I came to know in Singapore, MP, was desperate for me...

July 2019 Dresden was beautiful before it was fire-bombed near the close of World War II. Along with the Frauenkirche, one of the...

İncili Köşk August 2020 Built into the old Roman walls of Byzantium in the late 16th century was a pleasure palace on the Bosphorus for...

Tower of Saint Vincent August 2017 The project was started on a basaltic rock outcrop a short distance from the riverbank, using some of...