Postcards and Paperbacks

If someone were to ask me what my favorite sweets are I'm not sure donuts would rank very high. Sure, there's cake and its more por...

Yesterday was just one of those days. You know the kind: Things are going swimmingly for a while until one thing goes wrong, then anoth...

I'm not much into New Year's resolutions. For instance, this year I'm pretending to learn how to play Careless Whisper on ...

It should come as no surprise that food is an integral part of my travel experience and even though I wrote a fair amount about some memora...

Like the cultured young gentlemen centuries before, our Grand Tour ended in Rome. The idea was that  exposure to the great works of anti...

After Vienna we boarded a Railjet train (the train that may or may not turn into a plane) for Budapest. This was when that expensive fi...