A move to Morocco…
Wait… have I not already been in Morocco three days? In fact, I have. Alas, I am just now arriving in Fes: the city in which MOST of it is…
Tangier’s canyons…
There are just too few words to describe a medina or a souq or the canyons of color in a city like Tangier. I sometimes think an image is the…
To the other side…
It is quite simple to get to Africa, actually, once you’re in the southern tip of Spain. Its getting TO the southern tip of Spain that is the difficulty. As…
Across the water…
If you look reeeeeeeally closely, you might be able to see America… because that’s what’s on the other side of this: Tarifa… its Lands End for Europe. It doesn’t get…
What do you do in Madrid…?
We walked around. Alot. And went to the Prado. And saw more of these pseudo-mime things that I’ve ever seen before. It seems the days of the ol’ white-face and…
Eccentric people rule the world…
Okay, maybe not always. Most of life is a balance between those who are eccentric and those who live to keep them in check. Its why we have political parties,…
Travel afoot…
I would not advise it for something to do on a regular basis, but the past 36 hours have been “one of those days” that we – as sojourners –…
Everyday Paris…
To claim to know a city well, you must know the public transportation. Sure, I’m “comfortable” with the metro… but I hate bus systems in any city anywhere in the…
There’s always Paris…
…and for the second time in about 10 days, I am in Paris. Its always odd when things like this happen. Last year I was in New York City two…
Berlin is…
“Berlin is poor, but sexy!” That’s been deemed the new slogan for Berlin’s underground artsy slash “counter-culture” scene… well, that’s according to some SkyMall or Turkish Airlines magazine I saw…
Lingering history…
In a similar way that it sometimes is fascinating how fast people forget history, it is also just as fascinating how we simply live with the histories we have created…
Things that make ya go awww….
And they’ll make ya say awwww over and over again… I love visiting places a second time. Both my sister and I had both been to Prague before and done…