Ornamental Russia: Moscow — Image Gallery
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My Russia: When the Trip of a Lifetime Manifests
It is difficult to write about traveling Russia. Simply, it is a very intense country. In all I have learned in history books and by cultural influences, from novels and the news and from second-hand accounts, I know a thing or two and my wild imagination takes any knowledge that I have and pushes it much further. Most can relate to this, an […]
Ornamental Russia: Suzdal and Sergiev Posad — Image Gallery
Images from Sergiev Posad and Suzdal in “The Golden Circle” of Western Russia
The Bolshoi… Opera?
There is only one Bolshoi. Last spring, to finish that sentence, I would have said “there is only one Bolshoi Ballet.” But, when I got to the famed theater in Moscow I was schooled. It is actually called, “the Bolshoi Theater.” This matters to me simply because I had intended to go to the imperial palace to […]
The Haunt of My Heroes — Café Odeon, Zürich
My favorite places in the world are those which transport me to eras of history that I am inspired by or curious about — in the case of Café Odeon, it is where my artistic heroes spun great works and rulers caffeinated their power. Odeon has seen the faces and heard the voices of history’s […]
Dog Sledding in the Arctic North
In 1925, a deadly outbreak of diphtheria threatened illness upon the people of a small town in northern Alaska. The anecdote needed to combat the illness lived more than 2 thousand miles away, at a lab in Seattle, Washington. U.S. officials knew that they needed to act fast and smart to save the people of […]
How to Experience Halkidiki — the Most Tranquil Region in Greece
Traveling to the islands of Greece is by far the most popular way to experience the beaches on the Aegean Sea. But north of Santorini and Rhodes, you’ll find a new way to explore the beaches of Greece on the coasts of Halkidiki — the birthplace of Aristotle. Here, there is no cultural, culinary, back-roads […]
New Greek Cuisine from the Heart of Halkidiki
They say that all people in Greece are governed by religion and tradition. The third governor is food. Eating is thought to cure everything. You have a cold? You must eat. Having relationship trouble? Eat! You will have no strength for tears on an empty stomach. In short, food is love. At traditional food establishments […]
World on a Fork 