Over Tourism

The view from inside de Begijnhof Amsterdam This past weekend the Guardian published a story about over-tourism focusing on four medium size European cities and how they have reached the limit of how many tourists the local population can handle. In recent years even the most die hard Amsterdam Centrum dwellers among my friends have …

All The Lives We Never Lived: Anuradha Roy

One of the original ways to travel if you are physically or financially incapable of doing so is to listen to a story or, since the invention of printing, read a book. Most of the earliest novels were travelogues, picaresque novels, quests. Think of  Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver. Think of Fielding and Sterne …

Take The A Train

When you live in the upper reaches of Manhattan, the A-train is not only the quickest way to get to Harlem, but it is your life-line. The A-train is the blue-blooded sister of the red-blooded 1 train which is the other option we have to travel uptown. But whereas the 1 train is bubbly, lively, …

Walking The Brooklyn Bridge

According  to TripAdvisor walking across the Brooklyn Bridge is the number 6 most popular thing to do in New York. I have only done it once with guests, walking from Brooklyn to Manhattan. I was not impressed because you have to share the walkway with cyclists and there was a lot of construction at the …

Still Traveling

For a couple of months back there in 2016 I thought I was actually going to write this blog. Everything came together. I had a theme, I set myself up on this website and did it for about 6 weeks, writing faithfully every Sunday.I didn't think i was being overly ambitious in hoping to write …