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
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
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