Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Albania's last trains.

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  For the past 40 years, maybe even earlier if childhood stamp collecting is taken into account, I've been fascinated by the country of ...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

"Michael Palin on his favourite trips."

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The more I can't do it, the more it is missed.  Around the world in seven journeys: Michael Palin on his favourite trips , by Scott Brya...
Friday, September 25, 2020

A comeback for TEE?

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American railroad buffs tend to be fascinated by the physical infrastructure of trains and their accessories. Going back to my Eurailpass ye...
Friday, June 12, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger.

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Dearest readers, At the beginning of 2020, I resolved to play it completely straight and rededicate this weekly column to the propositi...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

Learn about Freya Stark: "As an explorer, Stark was an acute observer, and a connoisseur of people."

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Photo credit: The Idle Woman blog. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” Thi...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Running over the same old ground.

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Islands in the stream of consciousness … For those first ten years after college, my life was relatively simple. Armed with my handy, a...
Thursday, December 05, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: Ladislav's language, 1989 - 1990 (Part 2).

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Ostrava, 1989. Having resolved to resume contact with my Czech acquaintance Ladislav in the post-Velvet Revolution, pre-Internet wint...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: Ladislav's language, 1989 - 1990 (Part 1).

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Ostrava, 1989. Ladislav was a trim, polite, vaguely aristocratic older gentleman who lived in a peculiarly oversized flat amid a mode...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Influential books follow-up: At 90, Arthur Frommer still preaches the budget travel gospel, just as he did when I was converted 35 years ago.

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As it was titled in the early 1980s, Arthur Frommer's  Europe on $25 a Day was a rare example of a book that completely and demonstrab...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: In 1989, six months of traveling fabulously in Europe.

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For me the year 1989 was a time when those pesky dialectics came smashing together all at once, and gratifyingly so -- except when the re...
Sunday, July 01, 2018

What is Take Life on the Road?

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Taking life on the road means "road trip," and Take Life on the Road does the driving. Take Life on the Road ® is the tour d...
Friday, November 10, 2017

UPDATE: "Tjentište War Memorial, Yugoslavia, then and now."

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It wasn't until May of 2017 that I finally understood what I'd photographed back in 1987. It was the Tjentište War Memorial, glim...
Monday, September 25, 2017

From Flanders Fields to the Molen de Adriaan, love and beer and closure.

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Mechelen, Belgium. Yesterday's post was written almost two weeks ago. TRAVEL PRELUDES: These are the good old days. Indeed, Do...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: These are the good old days.

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At the age of 57, it isn't quite the same as for this twenty-something, although I can't tell you how much I appreciate the sentimen...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Tjentište War Memorial, Yugoslavia, then and now.

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Previously in the 1987 travel narrative: 30 years ago today: (May 1987) Dubrovnik long before those trendy thrones and games. It's ...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Video: "What Is Real Chinese Food?"

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I'm researching Chinese food for an article, and the topic is a maze. There is the diversity of cuisine within various regions of t...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Photos of Meteora in Greece, 1985, reclaimed from slides via a nifty scanner.

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From 1985 through 1994, a period comprising six trips to Europe, some of them quite lengthy, most of the 2,500-plus photos I took wh...