India: Kovalam Beach, Kerala
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...
Laos: Visions of Heaven and Hell, Luang Prabang
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...
France: Clock, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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...
USA: waterfront, Newburgh, NY
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...
Oman: old Salalah
June 2016 Ancient vs Old I had blundered upon an archeological dig on the fringes of modern Salalah [see: Al Baleed, Salalah]. After...
Slovakia: Nitra
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...
Dhaka: Lal Bagh
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,...
Chile: Puerto Natales
February 2001 After a very long boat ride through the Chilean fjords of Patagonia - a very similar trip to the Inside Passage of Canada...
Canada: skating on the Rideau Canal
February 1990 slow learner My favorite part of the Sunday New York Times was the Travel Section and I anxiously awaited it each week. ...
Czech Republic: Castle Hill at Night, Prague
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...
Vienna: Hofburg Palace
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 tempered by my recent Asian travels. I clearly remember that the Hofburg was the best amongst all the European palaces I had visited, but I simultaneously had not forgotten the absolute wealth dripping Royal Palace/Temple of Bangkok and the old Imperial Palace in Beijing [see: Palace Museum, Beijing ]. I recently discovered that all the pala
China: Palace Museum, Beijing
April 1998 The Forbidden City Only foreigners call the Palace Museum the "Forbidden City". To the Chinese it is the "Palace Museum" in...
Jakarta: Stasiun Kota
September 2014 Kota Station was completed in 1929. It represented an era where the Dutch were finally starting to take their colonial...
Lebanon: Corniche, Beirut
June 2019 Transformation of meanings A word I came to know while working in the Middle East was "corniche". Clearly a French word, I...
Jordan: As Salt
Bazaar June 2016 A very strange set of circumstances led me to As Salt. It all started in Diriyah, Riyadh on a visit with AQ when we...
Spain: Roman Amphitheatre of Sagunto
January 2020 over-renovated On my trip to Valencia, one of the day trips planned was to Sagunto to see its Roman amphitheatre. The trip...
Netherlands: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
July 2017 I was day tripping into Amsterdam from Amersfoort, seeing chunks of the city as time and weather permitted. The day I was in...
Riyadh: Camel Step Coffee Roasters
December 2016 evolution I had been in Abha for two and a half years. I was getting used to Saudi Arabia, but also tired of how...
Sri Lanka: Galle
December 2003 saved by colonialism Brian and I had come out of the misty tea mountains of Sri Lanka and headed toward beautiful Galle, a...
Botanic Garden
July 2016 perseverance pays off The idea of a national garden in Singapore started in 1822 when Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of...
