FOREIGN TRAVEL
In earlier essays on eating foreign food I concentrated on my personal tastes and distastes. This second part of a “taste for travel” recounts my experience as a tour…
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TRAVEL
A while back, in the Carpe Diem section of this journal I repeated and commented upon a Reuters news item that a Chinese government facility had been pressured to desist…
Back in 1979 I took delivery of a new VW diesel Rabbit in Amsterdam. Patty, the girls and I were about to embark on a four month sojourn through…
Not long ago, at the café where I feed my caffeine addiction, I met a guy who went to Canisius. Like me, he went to both high school and…
Knowing a little something about a culture’s food can help in understanding something of their history and character. One doesn’t find a lot of people dashing off to Scandinavian…
Some people are born travelers; others are made. Most of me fits the first category, but my stomach goes along reluctantly. My very first recollections of travel…
If the temperature is high, and the air humid; if the light has mellowed to a creamy custard; if the traffic noise has softened from its late afternoon fury; and…
As with so many other areas of contemporary social life, cruising has evolved into a niche industry . The experience one might have, or one might be inclined to have, aboard…
Americans Abroad No. 8 [Continued] With about two hours to go in the trip the realization hit me that being mummified by desiccation and covered by the drifting sands…
Americans Abroad No. 7 Nubia, Upper Egypt, 1991. Putting it as charitably as truth will allow, the domestic airlines of Egypt don’t inspire confidence in even the most insouciant…