Vienna: Egyptian Collection, Art History Museum
April 2019 context The Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum is among the world’s most important...
Qatar: West Bay, Doha
March 2015 I remember my Saudi friend Meshal used to be the lone member of our coffee clutch from Java Beans in Abha who traveled...
Slovakia: Devin Castle
July 2019 Highly recommended by MS, fellow world-traveler and photographer, I went out to visit Devin Castle on my second visit to...
Vietnam: China Beach, Đà Nẵng
December 2007 the persistence of media Vietnam has some spectacular beaches. One of the most famous is in Đà Nẵng. In the case of...
Germany: Burg Hohenzollern
March 1993 On Matt's First Big Trip to Germany, the first place MAP and I visited after I was settled in Stuttgart was Burg Hohenzollern....
England: Cambridge University
Emmanuel College. King's College Chapel. April 2012 an afterthought... I had begged Adrian FVdR to go with me to Ely to see the...
Sri Lanka: the Hill Club, Nuwara Eliya
December 2003 The Hill Club was founded in 1876 by W.H. Walker, J. Wickwar and H. Saunders and started with only a billiard room and a...
Istanbul: Bosphorus
August 2020 [from FB post: March 6, 2014] As far as I know, Russia is now defending two seaports which seem to be somewhat irrelevant in...
Canada: the trans-Canadian railway
July 1989 PROLOGUE Only after starting to work at NYU did I understand that I received six weeks of paid vacation per year! That easily...
Australia: Brisbane
April 2006 too late We arrived in Brisbane, rented a car, and headed south immediately. Our goal was Byron Bay [see: Byron Bay] via a...
Portugal: Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Belém
August 2017 The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in...
West Bank: the Bethlehem Barrier
June 2018 what makes a wall famous? The security fence that runs across Israel's own territory divides Israel from the West Bank (which...
Italy: Baths of Diocletian, Rome
door, Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Carthusian Charterhouse...
Philippines: Bacolod
Capital Park Negros Oriental Capitol Building San Sebastian Cathedral. June 2016 turning around perceptions Bacolod was my first solo...
Lebanon: Al Nourieh Shrine, Beirut
June 2019 Sayyidat al-Nouriyyeh An old shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary was in a room on the ground floor of a building in Souk...
UAE: Abra, Dubai Creek
October 2019 My absolute favorite thing in Dubai is riding the abra across Dubai Creek. From my point of view, if a visitor to Dubai...
Netherlands: Amersfoort
Koppelpoort. July 2017 The Netherlands on the Cheap No two ways about it, the Netherlands is expensive. It is also an amazingly easy...
Spain: Alcalá de Henares
June 2018 On my week of daytrips from Madrid, Alcalá de Henares was high on the list to visit. An old Roman city halfway between...
Jordan: Paris Square, Amman
June 2018 Writing I Textbook as Travel Guide (Part II) On my second trip to Jordan I requested NH to take me to Jebel Al Webdeh because...
USA: Arches National Park, Utah
July 1988 Arches National Park was my first real "Western National Park" and holds a special place in my heart. I had been in Denver to...
