With the bulk of my travels behind me I’ve decided that I’m going to try and do a series of reviews of things you experience in every country you go too (trains, planes, major tourist …
History
Extremadura? Is that contagious?
With the end of Carnaval comes the beginning of Lent, marked by Ash Wednesday. (Marked…get it? Gosh, I crack myself up.) Ash Wednesday Mass was celebrated at the Catedral de los Santos Niños with 24 …
La vie est belle
To my American eyes and ears, nothing makes sense in Paris. But, being a Western culture, there is a vague familiarity to everything. It’s like seeing the skeleton of your own culture through a fun-house …
Sanity, suitcases, and the Seine
All right, suitcase, it’s come to this. It’s just you and me now. We’ve been through a lot together. You’ve taken your fair share of shampoo-bottle explosions, customs snoopers and disastrous journeys through the ever-mysterious …
Art, Interviews, and Xi’an City Wall
Text: 4 June 2012 Text: 5 June 2012 Sorry, I took a break from this while I was in Hawaii. I promise more will keep coming! Kat