Last Saturday Aaron, Chas and I enjoyed a lovely day-trip to Samsø, an island 15 kilometers from the mainland. Rikke was enjoying her annual ladies weekend away, this year in Gothenburg, Sweden, and ...

Alas Purwo National Park is located at the southeastern tip of Java. Its 434 square kilometres cover the Blambangan peninsula consisting of savannah, beach forest and tropical lowland forest, as well ...

En route we stopped at the North End Organic nursery. It was a great place with a massive variety of plants and seeds from local growers. The nearest equivalent at home would be Riverside garden ...

I've spent almost my entire life living on the east coast of the United States and I can safely say the vast majority of people in that region have no interest whatsoever in anything that goes on ...

Last year we had found the heat in Paris really too much for comfort. This year it was much cooler and while yesterday was pleasant, today we woke to the forecast heavy rain. It was our anniversary, ...

On Monday we left Krakow by train and headed to Warsaw. The trains had been busier than we were expecting and we ended up having to book first class to get on. We took a slower train that was meant to ...

(In the US, often this is usually chicken wings that have been soaked in some kind of flavoring and then deep fried. Popular in some bars. Sometimes chicken meat formed into a wing shape and cooked.) ...

I was extremely disappointed in my location again this semester. It took me 2.5 hours to get to the train station on the teacher bus and it took me 3 hours to get back from the train station on the ...

When Peter woke up next day, he wasn't feeling well. I think the heat and all the problems of the day before had made him quite ill. This was the only hotel on our stay where we had breakfast included ...

Ms.Isabella, an English-speaking employee of the Tourist Information Center at 7 Pulaski Street, invited us to this exhibition long before it was officially announced by the city council. The ...

We had attended the Honey Fair last year and decided to attend it this year as well. This year, the organizers of the event decided to name it a festival, not a fair, since everything connected with ...

In the morning there was nothing remaining to be done in Siena so we packed up and left early. My online sources indicated there was a rare Monday market in a city called Casole d'Elsa about forty ...