La Rogativa. January 1982 May 2010 May 2010 In My Old San Juan - Noel Estrada (Trans.) In my old San Juan how many dreams I forge in my...

January 1993 names in high places On the NZ vacation after meeting MAP on the West Coast riding the Kiwi Experience bus [see: Lake...

March 2014 A strange legacy Tea is from China and the Chinese had a stranglehold on the world market for centuries. The British found...

City Hall Fish and Chips. August 2016 A wealthy dot One of the provinces of the Netherlands is Zeeland, a couple of fingers of land...

Harbor ha ha ha ha random temple somewhere in Hong Kong. December 2008 Back to Hong Kong When I lived in Japan and traveled regionally,...

December 2019 burial rituals Morocco had a vibrant Jewish community for centuries. The Jews were expelled from Spain alongside Muslims...

July 2019 Karlsbad After the fall of the Iron Curtain there were two places in then Czechoslovakia I wanted to visit - Pilsen and...

houseboat one of many canals. February 2010 Houseboat - Kerala backwaters -- we did this for 3 days. Kind of nice, but not as...

near Maharajalela Station Station Entrance at KL Sentral. June 2015 From new, to normal, to retro When we lived in Jakarta and...

September 2015 Frankish language area (Wikipedia) Charlemagne. Karl der Große. Charles the Great. Father of modern Europe....

September 2015 How is it that little Belgium holds two of Europe's most phenomenal train stations? Near the Dutch border in the north is...

Freedom of the Seas. May 2010 This is my only photo of Labadee, Haiti apparently. I guess it all was pretty blurry since we were on a...

December 2018 Gates of Hell Lake Avernus according to the Romans was one of the entrances to Hades. The small circular lake sits in the...

NJ Transit, Hoboken Station, New Jersey. July 2010 People forget that back in the day, New York City had THREE major railway stations: ...

Bus from Baghdad Duhok Zoo. September 2018 [from FB post: September 7, 2018] The Bus to Normal People come to Duhok from all over Iraq...

Győri Kármelhegyi Boldogasszony templom. April 2019 One of the day trips from Vienna was to Győr, Hungary. I never heard of the town,...

Ex-Malayan Railway, Singapore to Malaysia (and beyond). July 2016 Ex-colleague from Japan days, Bill Purver, loved to point out that...

グラバー園. March 1985 I left my heart in Nagasaki... Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco (a part of mine, too), but I bet...

Hausmannsturm Semperoper Fürstenzug Anleger der Elbdampfschiffahrt. July 2019 [from FB post: October 19, 2019] I visited East Germany in...

The Three Rondavels. July 1998 The Drakensberg Mountains are actually an escarpment that divides part of eastern South Africa into the...