Regular readers of this blog will know that I like to seek out places of Jewish interest, wherever I may travel. Be it a synagogue in the wild west of Boise Idaho, or an ancient…
Just over a year ago I traveled deep into the desert to attend Burning Man for the first time. An experience that was so amazing it has taken me a very long time to get…
I happened to be in London for a day of business meetings this past week. While there, some members of the broking fraternity invited me to join them for a lunch. Of course, I accepted….
Jewish readers of this blog may be familiar with the concept of Jewish Geography, a “game” that Jews like to play when meeting other Jews for the first time. The object of which is to…
I’ve spent a lot of time in Los Angeles these past few years. It is a city like no other, packed with weird and wonderful people from all over the world. And, as ground zero…
I lived in Asia for almost a decade. During that time I visited China a lot – usually once every month or so. In the course of which I traveled not only to the mega-cities,…
I made my first visit to Mexico City a few weeks ago. It was an impromptu trip – we had a few days free, and an expiring travel voucher that had to be used. Plus…
At the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where the Gulf meets the Caribbean, is Cancun. For decades this resort town has been especially popular with pasty Americans fleeing the northern winter, and drunken college kids…
The end of 2017 marks my sixth full year of writing this blog. When I first started this journey in January 2012, with a short post about how frustrating I found the queue at Heathrow’s…
I hadn’t planned on another post so soon. But the news these past few days has, once more, cast the tiny nation of Israel front and center on the world stage, so I just can’t…
