Old Town Castle. July 2019 Bratislava or Preßburg is a little corner of Central Europe that I ended up visiting twice (three times if...

October 2011 Hotel California On the cruise from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta, we ended up in Cabo San Lucas longer than expected due to...

Tahina factory....amazing place. Fresh tahina is nothing like the stuff you get in stores. There are people literally queued up the road...

West Bank/Israel Border Wall Iconic Banksy near Bethlehem. June 2018 I actually never heard of Banksy until I travelled to Israel. I...

December 2018 After visiting Lake Avernus [see: Lago d'Averno], one of the traditional entrances to Hades for the Romans, I took the...

Ottoman era French colonial hasty bomb repair War aftermath. June 2019 Beirut is old. Referred to in ancient Egyptian tablets dating to...

August 2017 The monument was conceived in 1939 by Portuguese architect José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo, and sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida, as...

front back. April 2019 On my several trips to Vienna while I worked in Duhok, I stayed at the Ibis hotel close to the main train station....

November 2017 [from FB post: November 17, 2017] Toqa Coffee - taste of things to come? I arrived in Jeddah late and my local friend, MN,...

The expectation exceeded the reality. I am happy I didn't queue for hours as I got there first thing. San Sebatian Catacombs (under...

San Sebastian Church. September 2006 On one of my trips to Munich to visit MAP and SFP (before they married), we took a day trip into...

December 1990 - January 1991 One of the benefits of working at New York University was its generous holiday schedule. Luckily, Brian's...

November 2004. The Dreaming In 1623, Dutch East India Company captain Willem Joosten van Colster sailed into the Gulf of Carpentaria and...

July 2016 Right out of Singapore's sometimes weird history, I literally stumbled across this old mansion while walking along the ...

March 2015 Counterpoint Arad Fort is one of Bahrain's most important fortified castles. The Fort was built in the style of Islamic forts...

Mt Canlaon, Negros. Barcelona Seaport, Escalante City, Negros. securing the bus Cruising down the road, Cebu. June 2016. On the summer...

Me and Kimio, March 1986. On my little street in the Kawauchi section of Sendai, I lived a few houses down from "Convenience 52". It...

Bridge on the River Arun, Arundel, England. May 2013 On one of my free weekends doing the CELTA course in London, Adrian FVdR and I took...

March 2018 Something unique to Saudi Arabia is the concept of the "mamsha". A mamsha is a linear park made especially for strolling in...

July 2017 Alkmaar has many medieval buildings that are still intact, most notably the tall tower of the Grote or Sint-Laurenskerk, where...