Travel: Broadway Tower
I know travel isn’t on the horizon anytime soon, but given how current events are so depressing right now, ruminations about travel at least provide a temporary diversion. So let’s…
I know travel isn’t on the horizon anytime soon, but given how current events are so depressing right now, ruminations about travel at least provide a temporary diversion. So let’s…
Some people have been referring lately to “covid-19 fatigue” - but I think that’s way too narrow. How about the following: “politics fatigue”; “election fatigue” (including the recent presidential debates);…
I did a silly thing the other day. Even though the covid-19 pandemic has made overseas travel unrealistic for the foreseeable future, I bought two travel guides. An unabashed Anglophile,…
This is another post about Spain, which partner Carol and I visited the first two weeks in January. Little did we then know that within six weeks of our return,…
While cathedrals and churches are mainly places of worship, they have become huge draws for tourists in recent years. For example, in 2018, the Church of England’s 42 cathedrals had…
Partner Carol and I covered a lot of ground on our recent trip to Spain, but there is only so much you can see and do in 12 days…
It’s not accurate to say the Spanish city of Girona is off the beaten path, especially when it’s under 40 minutes away by high-speed train from sprawling Barcelona and its…
¡Ay yi yi! I mentioned in my last post how partner Carol and I were leaving that day for Spain. As it turned out, that didn’t happen. While checking our…
The Paris Agreement (“Accord de Paris”), signed in late 2015 by the representatives of 196 countries, reached a consensus to combat climate change by taking action to curb the increase…
In my world, birthdays are only consequential if they end in a zero or a five. That’s why I threw an Oktoberfest party for myself when I turned 50, 55,…