A few days on the island of Santorini, Greece gave me the tourist experience of a lifetime. Are the wonderful views worth the crush of humanity? Is the absence of local culture made up for by the stunning photos you’ll bring back? Let’s break it down.
The internet is lousy full of really bad advice for travelers about dining etiquette around the world. They will tell you the most irreverent dictums. Let’s debunk some things that no, you’re not doing wrong.
The Venetians built a central square and a striking bell tower over their town of stone buildings and snaking, maze-like alleyways there on the Adriatic Sea. They just didn’t always do it in there in Venice. If you’re within striking distance of Venice and you’re on the water, you might run across an old Venetian-built…
These photos are all taken during one particular evening in Bangkers. I started in the backpackers’ district called Khao Sanh Road, where I always used to stay, and ended up late night in Sukhimvit Road, where I stay nowadays. I started just before sunset and finished perhaps 3:00 a.m., and could have gone much later.
Everything seems to be only five or ten kilometers apart in Istria. All day, when I looked at my next destination on the map, it always seemed to be about ten clicks away, as the bird flies. Driving, however, wasn’t much harder. In the northern part of Croatia’s Istria peninsula, one could hop to a…
A photo essay of Mongkok, Hong Kong’s seriously intense district, where the food, the markets, the socializing, and the dancing happen on the streets.
Visiting Malta is like ordering a small, unknown appetizer and lucking out with an amazing dish. Their wine helps, and here I explain exactly why Malta is a good dish.
Tachinomi are a Japanese institution – standing bars and restaurants, where by design there are no seats; you stand throughout the experience. See why you need to make your stand in Japan.
Find out why Ljubljana is a pleasant, pretty city, a great place to hang, for a day or two. And that’s about it. Its appeals are architecture and atmosphere, food and wine, not sights.
Listening to Fado music in Lisbon, Portugal is an entry into the country’s raw emotions, the melancholy, wistful singing taking you on its own journey that explores the concept of fate. You need to see Fado live, and here is where and how to do it.
Macau has only a few top sights, one every other blog will list. But you need more, because the former colony is awfully charming if you know where to schlep. Let me tell you several spots in which to hang, to get a feel for the city and to discover its many charms. Macau is great, if you know where to go.
A beautiful and pristine alpine lake, a small island in the center capped by a perfect little church, a medieval castle perched dramatically on a cliff face above it, all surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Crimey, I don’t know what’s happened to me. I don’t usually write using such trite, stock phrases, but Slovenia’s Lake Bled…
