The first time I was in Budapest was in 1967 and I was 5 years old. Yes, that is a long time ago and, if you have any manners at all, you will assume there was a typo involved and…
Category: travel
my citiestalking.com post about the venice biennale
The hardest part of visiting Venice is….visiting Venice. In any other place I will willingly bump elbows with throngs of camera-toting tourists in order to stand before a master-piece of art or architecture. Yet, despite Venice’s magnificent cultural endowment, I…
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new york, new york
Funny that New York City is now “abroad”. I grew up 20 miles west of the Lincoln Tunnel and had more fun that any human being should when I lived here in the 80’s. Last week, I spent four days…
la baby!
When I headed off to LA last week I was pretty sure I knew exactly what I was going to write about… after all, I’d seen the movies and I was going to be staying in Venice Beach. I would…
kowloon
I have just enjoyed a super quick visit to Hong Kong. After 9 months away, I was shocked to realize just how much I miss Asia. Mostly I miss the smells and the noise: the constant stimulation. This time I…
willie mitchell and the stanley cup
Countries around the world attach great cultural importance to a particular sport; some of these sports are professional and played across the globe and some are so provincial that they seem like weird cultural oddities. Mongolian goat carcass polo, anyone?…