“When you travel in Vietnam, you will find a fantastic mix of culture and nature. Its perfect blend of frenetic cities, untouched countryside and island hideaways promises to leave you breathless. The cities retain the grandeur of their colonial past- the wide boulevards and narrow alleyways alive with iconic cyclos, and the air thick with… Read More Good Evening Vietnam!
“It is the meeting place of East and West. The very new rubs shoulders with the immeasurably old… All these strange people live close to each other, with different languages and different thoughts; they believe in different gods and they have different values; two passions alone they share, love and hunger. And somehow as you… Read More Aloha Argentina
“The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.” – Dore Schary, producer Buenos Aires – I was originally going to do a compare and contrast between my last spot reviewed, PozoSanto, and the… Read More Peru Fusion Day Two
“Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.” – Blaise Pascal, mathematician, philosopher, physicist Buenos Aires – There was simply no reason for the place to be empty. Not the night… Read More Lost Opportunity…
“I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know.” – Anonymous Buenos Aires – Someone asked me yesterday if we’re still offering classes. The answer is yes – we just happen to be in the middle of two longer term series: a third round of our… Read More School’s in Session
“Few Americans have heard of these tiny villages, set like jewels into the Ligurian Coast and known as the Cinque Terre. The Cinque Terre is one of those places people tend to read about once and then dream about forever.” – Hidden Gems on the Italian Riviera, Los Angeles Times Buenos Aires – As usual,… Read More Italian Riviera
“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951 Buenos Aires – One of the things I like about vacationing by myself is… Read More Vacation Books
“The Caribbean writer today is a creature balanced between limbo and nothingness, exile abroad and homelessness at home. – Jan Carew, novelist Buenos Aires – With Ushuaia now left in the distance, though I will be back at some time to check out all the stuff I didn’t get to, and perhaps continue on to… Read More Taíno Take-off