Aperitivo. July 2017 The first city I reached in Galicia after departing Porto, Portugal (by train) was Vigo. I had never heard of it...

April 2012 Darling station of film and TV, St Pancras is one of those London landmarks that is iconic even for people who have never been...

December 2018 Walking along the Naples waterfront I discovered Molosiglio Gardens with its stunning view over the Bay of Naples and Mt...

Elizabethtown Amtrak Station. June 2021 Life was roller-coastering for everyone. We were living through COVID. Cases were down - was...

Badge of Honor, Ministry of Defense, Ukraine Prologue Nohadra is the Assyrian name for Dohuk, Kurdistan, Iraq. This place has been around...

July 2022 The lowly tricycle flatbed deliverymen are the backbone of moving things around Bangladesh. Upon first glance, people from...

January 2001 Ayer's Rock (Uluru) is striking. Uluru is an inselberg, meaning "island mountain". An inselberg is a prominent isolated...

July 2017 On one of my many visits to Bacolod, JRC took me down to the moribund Bacolod Baywalk Recreational Park. Unlike the...

February 2001 We were late to learn about South America. Brian had done a World Bank project in Peru and loved it just after Georgetown....

August 2017 On my "atypical for Europe" small white van tour out of Lisbon to visit Sintra, a lot of other smaller stops were included. ...

April 2012 On a very strong recommendation from my cousin/sister EHJ, I just had to see Windsor on my next trip to London. Since it was...

July 2016 In Bologna I cemented my relationship with aperitivo. Throughout the city's medieval alleys and piazzas on late summer...

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...