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...

Texas State Capitol. January 1984 little blue dot Long before Americans viewed the country as red and blue, the red and blue divide...

Nenas Beth, Manokan Country, Bacolod, Negros. June 2015 From the Filipino perspective: Manokan country is a complex of a couple dozens...

March 1994 A chambre de bonne is a type of French apartment consisting of a single room in a middle-class house or apartment building. It...

October 2019 In the late 19th century the Sheikh of Dubai gave generous incentives to traders. In the pre-oil days, most of the city's...

April 2017 Mantua is one of those surprise cities in Italy that no one talks much about but is filled with incredible artistic and...

Matt Hawkins, ex-colleague from American University of Kurdistan, was massively into craft beer making when I knew him in Duhok. It was...

July 2017 changeable weather Look at how lovely the weather is in this photo. In the short time it took me to walk around an inlet and...

July 2017. still rockin' in old Philly Roman Theatre of Amman is a 6,000-seat, 2nd-century Roman theatre. A famous landmark in the...

Plaza Mayor. June 2018 During the 1950s, the Corral de Comedias was discovered and restored. The Town Hall and Plaza Mayor were also...

December 2019 the ends of the earth Volubilis is a partly excavated Roman city in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes, and may have...

July 1998 The time spent in Victoria Falls [see: Victoria Falls] was the highlight of the trip to Southern Africa. Brian and I...

On my second trip to Madurai, the brothers MP took me on a temple drive north of the Sivaganga. It was like discovering an ancient (and...

January 1993 the ground zero of youth Queenstown, New Zealand on the end of lovely lake Wakatipu overlooking the Remarkables (a mountain...

City Square Cathedral October 2011 The official founding story of Las Peñas (and thus of Puerto Vallarta) is that it was founded by...

Main Square, Plzeň. July 2019 Beer Hajj Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the...

March 2015 hotel voyeurism At one time or another everyone has become a "hotel voyeur" - stopping by to see a hotel property with no...