April 1998 This was my third visit to Yonghe Temple because along with the Forbidden City, it was high on anyone's list in Beijing. The...

December 2005 [from FB post: January 9, 2011] Just arrived in Penang, Malaysia. Look forward to see my old friend M and eating some good...

Khone Pha Pheng Waterfall, Mekong River. August 2007 We flew to Pakse and arranged a car to take us Khone Pha Pheng Falls, one of the...

April 2019 context The Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum is among the world’s most important...

March 2015 I remember my Saudi friend Meshal used to be the lone member of our coffee clutch from Java Beans in Abha who traveled...

July 2019 Highly recommended by MS, fellow world-traveler and photographer, I went out to visit Devin Castle on my second visit to...

December 2007 the persistence of media Vietnam has some spectacular beaches. One of the most famous is in Đà Nẵng. In the case of...

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...

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....

Emmanuel College. King's College Chapel. April 2012 an afterthought... I had begged Adrian FVdR to go with me to Ely to see the...

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...

April 1997 One of our favorite places in Indonesia was the Minang Highlands around Bukittinggi, West Sumatra. Brian and I had fallen in...

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...

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...

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...

August 2017 The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in...

June 2018 what makes a wall famous? The security fence that runs across Israel's own territory divides Israel from the West Bank (which...

door, Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Carthusian Charterhouse...

Capital Park Negros Oriental Capitol Building San Sebastian Cathedral. June 2016 turning around perceptions Bacolod was my first solo...

November 2020 I remember visiting this house (along with the nearby Gates House and Plough Tavern) in elementary school. That experience...