October 2011 Hotel California On the cruise from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta, we ended up in Cabo San Lucas longer than expected due to...

West Bank/Israel Border Wall Iconic Banksy near Bethlehem. June 2018 I actually never heard of Banksy until I travelled to Israel. I...

December 2018 After visiting Lake Avernus [see: Lago d'Averno], one of the traditional entrances to Hades for the Romans, I took the...

Ottoman era French colonial hasty bomb repair War aftermath. June 2019 Beirut is old. Referred to in ancient Egyptian tablets dating to...

August 2017 The monument was conceived in 1939 by Portuguese architect José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo, and sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida, as...

front back. April 2019 On my several trips to Vienna while I worked in Duhok, I stayed at the Ibis hotel close to the main train station....

The expectation exceeded the reality. I am happy I didn't queue for hours as I got there first thing. San Sebatian Catacombs (under...

San Sebastian Church. September 2006 On one of my trips to Munich to visit MAP and SFP (before they married), we took a day trip into...

December 1990 - January 1991 One of the benefits of working at New York University was its generous holiday schedule. Luckily, Brian's...

November 2004. The Dreaming In 1623, Dutch East India Company captain Willem Joosten van Colster sailed into the Gulf of Carpentaria and...

March 2015 Counterpoint Arad Fort is one of Bahrain's most important fortified castles. The Fort was built in the style of Islamic forts...

Mt Canlaon, Negros. Barcelona Seaport, Escalante City, Negros. securing the bus Cruising down the road, Cebu. June 2016. On the summer...

Bridge on the River Arun, Arundel, England. May 2013 On one of my free weekends doing the CELTA course in London, Adrian FVdR and I took...

July 2017 Alkmaar has many medieval buildings that are still intact, most notably the tall tower of the Grote or Sint-Laurenskerk, where...

December 2003 King Pandukabhaya formally planned the city with gates and quarters for traders. The city at the time covered an area of...

Danube River from Devin Castle. July 2019 [from FB post: November 5, 2019] Reflections: Over 30 years ago I had traveled "behind the...

July 2017 It was rebuilt as a castle in 1184 by Izz al-Din Usama, a general in the army of Saladin. The castle controlled traffic along...

July 2019 I was travelling back to Iraq after summer vacation and Perry Place in DC was not available for an easy stopover that summer,...

Pan Am Worldport (from internet - in its glory days) [from FB post: October 27, 2011] First off... let's talk AIRPORTS. I was in JFK,...

August 2020 Coming full circle On my forced layover in Istanbul during the start of the Coronavirus Pandemic I took multiple long walks...