I spent a morning last week in San Francisco doing unrelated things on the far end of North Beach and ended up walking back through the neighborhood ...
Provence Encore!
It was my last few days in Provence, in France, and in Europe. Arles is one of my favorite towns and I spent a couple of days revisiting it and ...
Churches And Cloisters In Aix
Visiting churches, cathedrals, and basilicas when I travel is more about architectural history and archaeology rather than in my being a religious ...
The Village of Ventabren
Ventabren is a small village about 9-miles northwest of Aix-en-Provence. Going there was a twenty-minute day-trip that I took by local bus from Aix. ...
Cezanne’s Studio Aix-en-Provence
It's a climb to get to Paul Cezanne's studio halfway up the hill from town, on the avenue named after him. While the garden gives a respite from the ...
Grey Days In Great Britain
I've never spent much time in Great Britain and when I have gone there, it is usually to London. Great Britain has always been a bit out of my budget ...
The Jewish Cemetery In Prague
It was a place I felt I had to visit. Not a place I could really write about at the time. It was a cool spring day, the grass was just beginning to ...
Om Shasta
Om Shasta is what I call anything to do with Mount Shasta, in Northern California. Not because of the Buddhist Monastery that is near the town, but ...
Getting Lost At Coba
Coba was one of the archaeological sites that I visited that was *in* the jungle. Trees, trees, everywhere. This site covers a large area in the ...
Archaeology On A Whim
Ek Balam was one of those off the beaten track archaeological sites - it didn't have many visitors. But it did have me one day ... The place was ...
