Jan
13
One of the first things we like to do after arriving in a city following a long-haul flight is stretch our legs and get some fresh air, which generally sees us heading to the nearest park or garden. If we’re exploring a city, we’ll always find an excuse to check out a local park, even …
Jun
11
Why do travellers find transportation so fascinating? After all, for holidaymakers a trip away is a temporary retreat from the rituals of work – the dreaded daily commute, the tiresome crowded train rides, the slow bus trips into the city from the suburbs. And for long-term travellers escaping the cubicles they so often complain about, …
Oct
12
One of the first things we do when we arrive at a new destination is explore our neighbourhood. Despite having done the long haul down to Rio from Costa Rica via Miami, it didn’t take us long to get out the door and down to the sea. Our Ipanema apartment is just two blocks from …
Mar
10
If the way to a culture’s heart is through its stomach, then the people of Jerez, whose market feeds them some of the finest produce on earth, must be the happiest people in Spain, if not the world. And they do seem to be a jolly and friendly lot. Our first morning in the city, …
Feb
27
A teenage Moroccan girl in her school uniform of white shirt, navy blue tunic, backpack, and ponytail artfully carries several trays of flat rounds of dough covered in checked tea towels. A little boy scoots by her, his backpack slung over his shoulder, a tray of unmade bread balanced high on one hand like a …
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