I came across the arch above on one of my Parisian wanders. It’s the entrance to a factory that no longer exists at 49 Rue de Bagnolet, near Père Lachaise. It attracted my attention because...
Visiting Hong Kong’s Cyberport, starting to grow quickly since 2007....
Louisville provided me the opportunity to cross something off my bucket list: ride America’s last operating river steamboat. Okay, this wasn’t actually on my bucket list before, but you can bet your bottom dollar I...
I was watching a episode of Dr Who that’s just aired in the UK recently, “A Town Called Mercy”. It’s a sort of “High Noon in space” episode complete with a cyborg gunslinger not unlike...
Into the Belly of a Whale. Well, that’s how I felt sitting in this very crowded but new tapas bar in Manila — like being in the dark, massive, roomy mouth of some whale on a...
The Kota Kinabalu City Mosque should be on your list of things to do in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Day or night, the mosque is a stunning combination of Islamic modern architecture and landscaping with aspects...
I didn't know what to expect from Churchill, a town in northern Manitoba that is renowned for polar bear spotting in October and November.
The small Canadian town of 900 people, which is in the polar...
In my daily life I think a lot about language. How to use the Japanese language correctly, my choice of vocabulary and grammar when addressing my students in English, my use of tone and expression, the...
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