Edinburgh if also a port city, built on the Firth of Forth. A “firth” is essentially Scottish for an estuary or bay, on which Edinburgh sits. To …
Albania, at first, was very similar in its governance to the rest of the Warsaw Pact nations of Eastern Europe in being closely aligned with, and in many respects …
Most everyone operating a shop was Indian although some were Omani, but everyone was unfailingly polite and engaging. Many shopkeepers will offer a gift of some sort either …
After leaving India we headed slightly south toward Sri Lanka, the tear-drop shaped island dangling off the end of India. Sri Lanka, formerly known under the British as …
George Town, as the name implies, was named for a British monarch, George III in fact, of American history fame (a history, at least regarding George III that is …
We had changed reservations from the Hilton property, which was not near anything (the other Hilton choice was at a casino across the river in Quebec) to the Lord …
As is the case with many National Parks and Monuments, Devil’s Postpile has adopted the shuttle bus to move people to and from the sights. We have used …
But the real biggie exhibit is the Boeing 767 parked in the hangar. This $30 million aircraft was actually purchased using donations from actual Delta Airlines employees in …
I was quite thrilled that our first landfall was to be the island of Madeira, a semi-autonomous outlying possession of Portugal. Landing there was one of the reasons …
Amazon Adventure As many of you know, our latest adventure took us through the Caribbean to the mouth of the Amazon and up the river as far as Manaus, …