As I was posting one of my favorite pictures from Brugge, I was reminded of one of the most vivid travel memories I have from…
Imagine yourself, if you would, sitting on a terrace overlooking an amazing landscape. We will tentatively pin the place as a hamlet alongside Amalfi Coast,…
We never pass up a chance to walk through a street market. Sampling foodstuffs, stopping to admire craftsmanship, checking out odd or antique objects on…
Driving around the country in between sightseeing stops is one of my most favorite traveling pleasures. Pastoral landscapes aside, you can truly experience a foreign…
Monaco famously occupies a very tiny spot on the French Riviera coast, but its topology is such that if you move from one part of…
While this is one of those little travel recollections that we frequently like to recount, it is not an “anecdote” in the sense that I…
Sometimes, the most insignificant of memories lodge themselves in one’s brain… I must have been four or five when I overheard my Mom and her…
The other day, my teenager and I got into one of nowadays frequent verbal exchanges that end with her effectively telling me to mind my…
After penning my first entry in this series, I realized that we suffered through too many comical miscommunication situations in non-English-speaking restaurants, from randomly choosing…
This song is one of “signature” pieces of my DJ days in high school. As I noted elsewhere, I’ve been an unwilling dancer for my…
I’m going to inaugurate a new recurring feature on this blog that I hope will provide a bit of extra amusement for my readers as…
Tania asked during my recent attempt at a Q&A session: [What] interesting scars [do you have] and how you got them? I don’t have much…
When my Uncle was emigrating a couple of years ahead of us, he left me a handful of cassette tapes for my new shiny tape…
Ok, still no time – or fodder – for regular blogging, so how about going back to an old recurring feature… I mentioned somewhere that…
Another one of those huge Euro-hits of the late 80’s that were so popular in our discotheques. And another one of one-song performers for me……
Half a year or so into my American immigrant life, I earned enough money through a couple of small jobs to splurge on my very…
I haven’t heard this song in ages and suddenly recognized the tune in a McDonald’s commercial, of all places. The Proclaimers‘ cover of the Roger…
Continuing with musical genres other than pop or rock (the last installment was classical waltz, remember?), another frank admission: I am very partial to stage…
That day which started with my infamous detention for video-taping local police headquarters, continued with various amusements on my subsequent trip home1. I was already…
I like classical music. Johann Strauss is one of my favorite composers. This entry was meant to be filed under “Musical Tiramisu” series – my…