Singapore is a fascinating place, with a tremendously interesting history that is only eclipsed by the energy of the present moment. It’s absolutely at the forefront of contemporary culture, setting trends as much as it does mark them, and the population is receptive, engaged, and discerning. The capacity for kitsch here has been written about [...]
Thailand is an amazing country, and it’s impossible to get a sense of the whole, even in repeated visits. But it’s easy to get a sense of the place, almost immediately, and it continues to get more fascinating the more you look into it. There is a spectacularly interesting history here, and the cultural traditions [...]
Located close to the Key Highway and Hughes Street in the city of Baltimore sits an historic location, which is becoming one of the popular neighborhoods in the city. Captain John Smith first discovered Federal Hill during his first exploration trip of the Chesapeake Bay in 1608. The name was not given to this area [...]
A thousand years ago, the Tequesta Native Americans lived in Biscayne Bay country; today, we call its major city Miami, and it’s now the largest city in Florida. If you come to stay in one of the miami luxury hotels, you’ll quickly recognize this metropolis is a cosmopolitan 21st century city, known as an international [...]
We packed up the house once again at the end of March and left around noon. We decided to drop our dog, Cha, off at the kennels yesterday, so we wouldn’t have to worry about her today. We headed into Queanbeyan where most of the volunteers were setting up camp for the night. We said [...]
Cindy’s father John has always been interested in studying their family genealogy and it has been his hobby for the past ten years. Every once in a while he would discover something interesting and it would be a major event. Perhaps it was a little longer than ten years that he’s been working on their [...]
Ibiza is the Spanish island that is filled with visitors more and more every year. The island is the place for mainly Europeans to take their Holiday. It is mostly a party and sport place. I am not sure how that mixes together. Party and Sport but in Ibiza they make it happen. With so [...]
Dayton, Ohio has a lot of attractive features and city icons and landmarks that entice numerous tourists every year. And while they are busy enjoying the accommodations of the hotels Dayton and the sights and sounds of this city, they may also be interested in knowing that some famous personalities have sprung from there. Martin [...]
Coming to India can be one of the most pivotal moments in a lifetime, and everyone who gets to see this magnificent country remembers their first visit. Subsequent visits can be no less dramatic, revealing deeper and deeper sides to this complex puzzle. The puzzle is unsolvable, too, because it keeps moving and evolving at [...]
Kolkata didn’t start like many other big cities in India. It didn’t have much going on in the early years of great Empires. It developed with the colonial growth in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The European trading boom is what made this now rather large city grow. This is a city filled with descendants [...]