I passed through Singapore last week. I lived there from 2004 to 2012, so I always get a kick out of a stopover, however brief. It’s an opportunity to revisit old haunts, catch up with…
I recently visited Cuba, my fifth time there in four years (read about previous trips here and here). Although my frequent trips to Cuba are not because of any Hemingway-style love affair with the place….
I was just in Hawaii, and I have a couple of blog posts to follow over the next two weeks. But as a precursor, and while on the subject of Hawaii, here’s a quickie. Long-standing…
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…
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 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…
I have only been to Canada once, about ten years ago, on what was meant to be a week-long work trip to Toronto. It was February on that visit and minus 20 degrees Celsius (that’s…
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…
