The Continent! — Cartagena, España
April 28, 2018 The Continent, capital C, as in mainland Europe... because I’d already traveled around four other lower-case-c continents....
Alger La Blanche: In search of peace and beauty
April 27, 2018 My ‘Treasures of Algiers’ excursion promised to take me to ‘two beloved oases of peace and beauty.’ Today it has little of...
Yes, they eat sardines in Sardinia
April 26, 2018 Our second Mediterranean island (after Malta) was the Italian-ish Sardinia, to differentiate it from the French-ish...
Marvelous Malta
April 24, 2018 Malta is not very large, and I was on foot so I saw only a bit, but what I saw is breathtakingly gorgeous. After several...
Egypt, the Magnificent
April 18-21, 2018 If you’re like me, you were about 8 when you first saw the Pyramids of Giza, maybe in a TV cartoon, maybe in a photo in...
The Rose Red City, Petra
One of the (many) wonderful things about a cruise is gliding into port early in the morning and opening the curtains to... Who knows...
Sultanate #2: Oman
April 10, 2018 Sultanate #1 was Brunei, back on March 1. What a change from India! This is all desert — but wealthy desert. Oil, don’t...
An Untourist Look at Mumbai
April 7, 2018 The two excursions I was on in Mumbai were not about seeing the sights, though we did pass by a few on the bus: the vast...
A Whiff of Incredible ¡ndia— Chennai, Cochin & Goa
April 1-6, 2018 [with 3 sea days in the midst] [I give up. I am a hopeless photo editor. So many shots bring back so many memories, and I...
Any Hieronymus Bosch fans out there?
No. Not THIS Hieronymus Bosch... THIS Hieronymus Bosch... aka ‘Harry’... ... the character created by Michael Connelly and portrayed...
