Any excuse is a good excuse to make another visit to Prague, to take another sightseeing tour in the Czech capital. My most recent excuse for a guided tour of selected highlights — and a few things the casual visitor never heard of — was the publication of a book,
While the American Revolution dragged on in the colonies outside New York, the city itself was occupied by the British Army. The occupation, starting from late 1776, lasted to late 1783, a full two years after the British surrender at Yorktown in Virginia. To effect control of New York City,
Peru is a great place to shop. But, among all the goodies we could bring home, textiles are the star. Peruvian weavers are noted for colorful goods, be they tapestries, smaller decorative pieces or the simplest things, like headbands. I was reminded of this in a big way during a
I don’t even drink beer, but I participated in a beer making session — well, a truncated version — while on a return visit to Peru earlier in 2025. The beer was, in fact, the country’s famed chicha de jora, or corn beer. The drink itself is nutritious, my group’s
I spent a night in a 19th century prison in Beziers, a town in southern France. Fortunately, the prison — once home to a guillotine last used in 1949 — has been repurposed to accommodate visitors in this medieval city in southern France. It’s called La Prison Hotel for good
Zadar, a small city on the coast of Croatia, boasts it is home to the “tastiest tuna in the world.” It IS very good; in fact, it was far and away my favorite among an assortment of five seafood dishes that comprised most of a dinner (actually, banquet) staged last
Stockholm has lots of islands and lots of enticing museums. This past summer a travel companion and I spent a few days getting acquainted with a few of each. Parts of Sweden's capital were built on 14 islands, located on the east coast of Sweden. Most tourist visits center on
It was my first trip to Asia and my first day in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. After hotel check-in, I made a beeline to the traditional market area. I walked among temples, big sculptures, numerous ceremonial sites — and an awfully lot of people. The crowds kept growing with folks gathering
The dictionary defines a fjord as “a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes.” That’s a precise but inadequate collection of words when measured against the real thing on the west coast of Norway. The numerous fjords that turn Norway’s coast into a jagged line are routinely,
Our tour guide said that Bergen, a port city on the west coast of Norway, has attracted outsiders for centuries, both as traders and settlers. Then she made the point with her own story: Although our guide was born and raised in Bergen of Norwegian forebears, she said DNA