Travel
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Under the African Sky in Kruger National Park
The safari is truly about the all encompassing moments that comprise the overall experience of your time in the bush. In fact I would rather stress that the idea of “safari” as a…
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Africa
We’re back from South Africa! Kenz and I took a 12-hour red eye (one-hour time difference) flight from Cape Town to London last night, arriving this morning just in time to start the…
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Out of Africa
Before we take off on our African adventure, I wanted to send a quick note to wish you a Happy Easter. This trip has been a long time in coming, having booked our…
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Viva La Barcelona!
Ahhh, Barcelona– the land of Gaudi, tapas, fashion, Barca FC, and home of the famous La Ramblas — is definitely one of Europe’s most visually stunning city sitting on the edge of the…
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Budapest: Baths, Danube, and Goulash
Buda and Pest is divided by the River Danube, one of the longest rivers in Europe stretching from the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea. The former, Buda, is home to…
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Wien: Waltz, Mozart, and Coffeehouses
Since moving across the pond, Kenz and I have been diligent about working through our list of European capital cities; so far we’ve visited Paris, Madrid, Rome, and Moscow, to name a few.…
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A Quick Week in Saxony
This week I had the opportunity to visit Dresden on a work assignment for a few days. I chose to fly into Berlin, hire a car and drive the two hours on the…
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31 Places to Go in 2010
The New York Times published a feature on “31 Places to Go in 2010” with Sri Lanka taking the top prize as the #1 destination this year. Exciting! We’ve been to six places…
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Brgggggh…from Helsinki
A few months before his unexpected death in 2006, R.W. Apple Jr., the globe-trotter and political journalist for the NY Times, wrote a glowing article of Finnish capital, Helsinki. Of course, he wrote…
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Здравствуйте (Hello) from St. Petersburg!
Continuing our Russian adventure from Moscow, we boarded an overnight train from Leningrad Station to St. Petersburg in a four-berth coupe shared with two other strangers, both were Russian. There is common stereotype…
