Travel to learn. Learn to travel.
Fumbling for coins, waving arms to keep the lights on, balancing while squatting, rummaging in your bag for toilet paper, solving the “how to flush” mystery, getting locked in a stall. Anyone who has left the familiarity of their own bathroom to travel abroad will have toilet tales.
2P to pee and other travel toilet tales Read more
Travel books take my imagination on a thrilling journey, to places I want to visit, to places I´ve been, and even to places that may or may not exist. And sometimes, a travel writer even recommends you go nowhere.
Explore the world via the written word: 12 travel books Read more
Tromp, swish, rinse, squeeze. I learned the laundry dance in a Malaysian bathtub. When you’re traveling, getting your clothes clean often requires a different skill set than at home.
Laundry happens – when you pack for carry-on Read more
To visit or not to visit? That question tormented me before and after arriving in Verona. Juliet’s House, with its fake balcony and bronze breast, is an admitted tourist trap.
Dear Juliet: Wherefore all the hoopla in Verona? Read more