“You are the most adventurous person I know!” I stared at the chat window for a minute, wondering if the new year meant old age and poor eyesight. But as I laughed away the comment, and chatted with my colleague,…
Now that the birthday is done and dusted, I look back to a year that was eventful and happy and travel-heavy. Of course, there’s a lot more I would have liked to travel (it’s never enough!), but I am so…
In a corporate world where business demands frequent traveling, there’s an oft-heard complaint that it’s never possible to enjoy yourself, or to really “travel”. While the first few trips are fun, I have heard most frequent-flyers complain about the hectic…
A lot of people I know, and a lot of people on the internet seem to think of Budapest as a poor cousin to the more opulent and famous Vienna. That assumption is wrong at so many levels. For one…
Recently a friend asked me to make a list of all the things she would need to purchase before making her first overseas trip. While discussing it with her, I came to realize that there are a set of staple…