August 2020 The column was dedicated on May 11, 330 AD, with a mixture of Christian and pagan ceremonies. In Constantine's day the...

December 2007 Marble Mountains is a cluster of five marble and limestone hills located in Ngũ Hành Sơn District, south of Da Nang city in...

December 2019 Underappreciated On my day of wandering in Fes, I stumbled across this complex of buildings. The Kairaouine Mosque and...

March 1993 remnants Esslingen was occupied by U.S. troops starting in April 1945, at the very end of World War II. During the war the...

December 2003 We had been exploring Colombo and it was our last night there before our big tour of Sri Lanka began. South of the old...

Jaffa Road. June 2018 Shabbat in Israel is legendary. Everything shuts down. I had heard tales from New York City where...

June 2015 On my first trip to KL with Masaaki in the mid-80's, the old Central Market of KL was just being renovated and reformatted into...

March 2016 A little piece of Irish Sanity I was so excited when my good Singapore-days friend, SL, got a job at Emirates Aviation College...

February 2010 On our trip to Kerala, it was the first time back to India for Brian and me (well, he had been back for work, but that...

August 2007 we knew it all along By the time we had visited Luang Prabang, Brian and I must have seen a thousand temples due to our...

June 1997 On my first visit to Paris [see: first trip to Paris], MAP and I discovered the big clock and cafe on the rooftop level of the...

October 2009 [from FB post: May 7, 2010] I had a GREAT lunch today with my good friend (and local FAMOUS PERSON -- LOL) Lori G. down on...

June 2016 Ancient vs Old I had blundered upon an archeological dig on the fringes of modern Salalah [see: Al Baleed, Salalah]. After...

July 2019 Nitra is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. It is located 95...

March 2012 In the middle of old Dhaka, sits the abandoned Mughal Fort of Lal Bagh. Dhaka in its day was the capital of the rich,...

February 2001 After a very long boat ride through the Chilean fjords of Patagonia - a very similar trip to the Inside Passage of Canada...

February 1990 slow learner My favorite part of the Sunday New York Times was the Travel Section and I anxiously awaited it each week. ...

July 2019 I had watched the late afternoon glow on the Charles Bridge and then die as the lights slowly re-illuminated the statues of the...

April 2019 The first visit to the Hofburg in 1987 I was amazed. That initial trip to Europe was a series of "wow" moments, but also...

April 1998 The Forbidden City Only foreigners call the Palace Museum the "Forbidden City". To the Chinese it is the "Palace Museum" in...