Rio de Janeiro famously boasts one of the most spectacular natural settings of any major world city, a charismatic interplay of ocean with dramatic plunging hills (the most dramatic...
14/03/2016
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Iberia Destinations
For the many Latins in the “capital of Latin America”, Spain is their ultimate madre patria (mother country) whence much of their cultures and many of their comfort foods...
11/03/2016
One of Spain's breezier, more gracious maritime cities is a bracing must for any visitors to the country's northwest, proudly facing the Atlantic as well as the Riazor (one...
10/03/2016
The foothills of the world’s highest coastal mountain range, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, meet the Caribbean at Tayrona National Natural Park, Colombia’s second most visited national reserve....
07/03/2016
Dining out has always been a social sharing - sometimes a ritual and/or and a celebration. But the explosion of social media and the so-called "sharing economy" in the...
04/03/2016
During my first visit to Madrid back in 1978, strolling out near my family’s hotel near Plaza de España, I was gobsmacked to suddenly spy, of all things, an...
03/03/2016
When you think of South America's mighty, mystical Amazon rain forest, for many of us, Brazil tends to come most readily to mind. But this enormous expanse is actually shared...
02/03/2016
Astride the coast of the Aquitaine region and France’s Basque Country, the country’s southwesternmost city (just 19 kilometres/12 miles from the Spanish border) has been one of its most...
01/03/2016
Today, the Leap Year Day February 29, is unusual enough that it merits an unusual tale, the 514th anniversary of which happens to fall tomorrow. Often lost in the...
29/02/2016
Tokyo may be many things, but boring is not one of them. If I weren't born and raised in the Mediterranean, Japan's capital is the city I would most...
26/02/2016
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