You realize that you truly became a cosmopolitan individual when you sit in your house in London, and your lunch consists of gazpacho accompanied by…
All good things come to an end. Unfortunately, life is not fair that way. And our big summer holiday is now over. It was grand…
Man, I seriously hate England right now! It is becoming a nagging refrain this summer, but sunny skies and hot but bearable temperatures see me…
I’m told that the weather in London has been its customary gloomily rainy for the last week that I’ve been away. On the Mediterranean coasts…
… you see exposed breasts of various colours, shapes and sizes. From perfectly toned ones to amorphic sagging what-letter-in-the-alphabet cups. And that’s just men’s. About…
Spent the day in a bustling and vibrant Barcelona, went to sleep in the God-forsaken Mottingham… Fun life I lead sometimes! The big summer holiday…
Despite my self-sustained image of the world traveler, I have only been to 37% of European countries. Natasha is actually one up on me, in…
One of my new UCF friends, Jeri, has reminded me with one of her recent posts of a topic that I wanted to expand on…
We are in between visitors, for a few days anyway. My mother-in-law departed back to Russia this morning. Her trip’s first leg took her to…
My loving children will forgive their old man for saying that it is infinitely nicer to travel without them. Our weekend getaway to Belgium was…
Southernmost part of continental Europe turned out to be not warm enough for a dip in the Mediterranean Sea at the end of May. That…
Ahh, Paris… There is nothing like it in the whole wide world. Not for us, at least. I don’t know what it is, honestly, but…
Simply going to the Keukenhof gardens for a few hours – which was the main point of our latest expedition – was worth the trip.…
This has not been the most exciting of trips, for two main reasons. First, it was mighty cold and, unlike in London, where not a…
A hot-off-the-presses update to the compendium of trivia about me: Q50. Yes, although only on a brief weekend trip that did not take me much…
My cousin Alex – who, in our family parlance, would be referred to as my brother – is on a work assignment in Dublin for…
I admittedly do not like packaged vacations. There are few things in this world that annoy me more than having to waste my time on…
We are back from our excellent Alpine adventure, and since I am sure that everyone is anxious to hear about it, here is a brief…
