If you have limited time but want to experience as much as you can in a week or so in Northern Europe, than Brussels is a great place to start. you can easily arrange train travel across Belgium and France. I personally prefer to slow down and could easily spend …
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the First Opium War and the British only gave it back in 1997 after 156 years of British colonial rule. They left behind a city that is distinctly Chinese, but also very British. My wife and I went there for …
Modern Turkey is vast and varied country. Throughout history, various Turkish empires controlled huge swathes of land ranging from the north of Africa across to Persia and large parts of Europe. The end result is a massive influence of different cultures that have been uniquely shaped into one dynamic Turkish …
Imagine sitting in a cafe, with the sun streaming through the window, watching men sell baguettes out on the street-side. Behind them are European villas sitting silently in various states of repair along a tranquil river. You could forgive yourself for thinking that you were in the south of France. …
When I got married to my lovely wife, we decided to spend our honeymoon traveling across Europe. Although we were born half a world away from each other, we had both traveled in many of the same places, often at the same time, but it was not until we both …
Like many other big cities, New York can be very daunting for the first time visitor. It can also be very expensive, though it doesn’t have to be. Many people I know that have visited there several times still end up staying in expensive places and doing the same old …
“Il tricheco per favore” I said to the waiter at the cafe on the beach overlooking the sea. “Che cosa?!” he replied and then began to rant at me in Italian. When I laughed, he realized I was joking around and then he laughed too and began to speak in …
Take it from a long-term travel addict. When your budget starts getting depleted and you have borrowed all you can from friends and family back home, the dread of the reality of The Return Flight gets ever closer. If you are actually just on the road for a set period, …
I was never very good at speaking French. I can get by when needed, but skipping too many classes years ago left me with only a basic grasp at best. That all changed after 11 months in West Africa, but when I had been there for only a few weeks, …
After weeks of traveling around in Morocco I decided it was time for me to do something a little more adventurous. Something a little more precarious, the stuff adventures are made of. With little thought as to what I was headed into, I booked a flight from Casablanca to the …