9th September 2014 / Destinations, North America, On the road, United States / 2 comments

San Francisco has the largest Chinatown outside of Asia, and the oldest in North America. On Saturday morning I joined a City Guides walking tour through San Francisco’s Chinatown. City Guides is a non-profit, primarily […]

11th June 2014 / Belgium, Destinations, Europe, On the road / 3 comments

My last day in Europe was spent in Ghent, an easy day trip from Brussels (50 minutes by train). With 250,000 people, Ghent is the second largest city in Belgium by population, but doesn’t feature […]

9th June 2014 / Belgium, Destinations, Europe, On the road / 9 comments

If I had to use one word to describe Brussels it would be eclectic. While not one of the great European capitals, it is nevertheless the capital of the European Union, with a population slightly […]

28th May 2014 / Destinations, Europe, France, On the road / 3 comments

After one more day in Bordeaux and a rainy afternoon in Arcachon (a village near a protected beach on the Atlantic seaside), I boarded a TGV (“train grande vitesse”) last Friday direct to Paris. My […]

20th May 2014 / Destinations, Europe, France, On the road / 1 comment

  I’m on the move again, this time in France where, judging by the lushness of the trees and flowers, spring sprang quite a while ago. I arrived early Friday morning after skipping over the […]

23rd March 2014 / Asia, Destinations, Indonesia, On the road, Thailand / 1 comment

This will be my last post from the road, as I am flying back home early tomorrow morning. The end of my Balinese sojourn I spent the first part of the week in Ubud, with […]

17th March 2014 / Asia, Destinations, Indonesia, On the road / 6 comments

After I first visited Bali (Indonesia) in February of 1995, I was so taken by it that I wrote an article entitled “I left my heart in Bali” and submitted it to a small solo […]