The Netherlands' best known canal city has long deservedly been a travel gem, but let’s face it – pannekoeken, snert, and other homely Dutch cuisine may be tasty enough but...
09/02/2016
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Iberia Destinations
Highly coveted as far back as ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the mushrooms known as black truffles remain a major object of desire of foodies and gourmets across the globe. But while...
08/02/2016
Until fairly recently, Uruguay and its capital Montevideo registered pretty much not at all on the world gastronomic scene - written off as at most a parrillada-ridden echo of Buenos...
05/02/2016
Portugal's capital has no shortage of iconic places and things associated with it. The Explorers' Monument. Crenellated St. George Castle on high. The funicular up to the mediaeval Bairro...
04/02/2016
The imaginary line encircling our planet, dividing the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere, may be abstract but has always exerted a very real fascination and mystique. And one country...
03/02/2016
Spain is blessed with some of the world’s most remarkable sights and experiences, thanks to its many millennia of human presence, stretching back into the mists of prehistory. There...
02/02/2016
One of Florida's — and for that matter, the USA’s — most unique towns/islands, Key West is known for lots of things: its whiff of tropical paradise; historic architecture; diving...
01/02/2016
Some time back, in this blog we covered top options for souvenir shopping in Europe and Latin America. Given the popularity of retail therapy on holiday as much as...
29/01/2016
The sultry, storied queen of Egypt in the first century BC still enthralls millions after all these millennia, and if you happen to be in Madrid through the first week...
28/01/2016
If you love the films of Anglo-American maestro of suspense Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) as much as I do, you’ll get an exhilarating rush from experiencing the exact locations where...
27/01/2016
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