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...
Cox's Bazar: a local beach resort
Carved up, dried fish crab designs March 2012 Then and now The modern Cox's Bazar derives its name from Captain Hiram Cox, an officer 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...
Bukittinggi, West Sumatra
April 1997 One of our favorite places in Indonesia was the Minang Highlands around Bukittinggi, West Sumatra. Brian and I had fallen in...
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...
York: Barnett Bobb House
November 2020 I remember visiting this house (along with the nearby Gates House and Plough Tavern) in elementary school. That experience...
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...
Air & Space Museum (Dulles)
July 2019 On my final return to Iraq from the USA, my brother was the one to take me to the airport (Dulles, Washington, DC). We agreed it was far more civilized to book a hotel room near the airport and stay one night. Additionally, he really wanted to see the nearby National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center which held a lot of historic aircraft. I have to admit I was only mildly interested, but since my brother was generous enough to take me to the airp
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...
