Lisbon’s Belem district holds so many of its sights, but for the visitor it’s a difficult place to visit, a tourist abyss that holds overrated sights and few native pleasures. You need to know how to visit this place.
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Segovia, Spain hits all the notes for a good day trip: small town just an hour away from Madrid the big city, feels utterly different, and contains striking sights one can’t find in Madrid. Segovia is hardly undiscovered, but not nearly so crowded as other day-tripper-places such as Toledo, which is so packed with tacky…
En guard. The audacious practice of airlines charging their valuable customers to choose a seat is slowly spreading. The airlines, nomenclature-meisters all, call this trend “unbundling”, charging for things that used to be standard. Once upon a time, in an industry far, far away, the privileged purchaser of an airplane trip could count on the…
For utterly understandable reasons, the main attraction in the oh little town of Bethlehem is the Church of the Nativity, built right over the birthplace of You Know Who. That’s the only reason people visit. You may wonder, as I did, is there any other reason to go there, and thus is it worth the…
You cannot escape forever having a layover in Frankfurt. Either you’ve done it, or it’s coming. If you’ve done it, you’ll eventually do it again. Frankfurt airport is the fourth-busiest in Europe, but it feels like the first. It’s smack in the center of Western Europe and the hub for everyplace you want to be…
Travel writers have a game they play, going on about which destination is “the next Prague”. Rick Steves thinks it’s Krakow, or Ljubljana, or Budapest. Or perhaps even Dubrovnik, a city that’s been discovered already. A quick web search reveals others think it’s Phnom Phen, Kiev, or Buenos Aires. One random blog that I won’t…
Preparing for a day in the rubberneck zone. This is travel without mercy. The most iconic structure in Lisbon, Portugal is the Belem Tower, an ornate 16th century creation that sits near the mouth of the Tagus River. When people display pictures of Lisbon, it’s there, and it’s gorgeous. Perhaps the finest architectural site in…
This site will feature stories, articles, information, and links about travel. It will grow and evolve just like humans did. This is not merely a site about my own wonderful, oh-so-exciting travels around the world, and I’m not claiming that I’m so great as to inspire you to follow your own travel dreams just like…
