Most of my long trips begin with a red-eye out of Montreal, and a fair number of those red-eyes put me down at Schiphol with hours to spend before the next leg. …
Hello, fellow adventurers! Some places feel important the moment you arrive. Not because they overwhelm you, but because they carry weight – quietly, steadily, and with purpose. Parliament Hill in Ottawa is …
Three days is not enough for London. I want to say that at the top, because every itinerary that promises otherwise is lying to somebody. What three days is enough for is …
There are landmarks that draw your attention, and then there are those that hold it. Rising from the heart of Graben, the Plague Column is one of Vienna’s most striking and intricate …
There are places in a city that invite admiration, and then there are places that invite reflection. The Memorial Against War and Fascism is unmistakably the latter. It is not a place …
There are streets in Vienna that you walk through, and then there are streets that you experience. Graben is unmistakably the latter. Stretching gracefully through the heart of the historic center, it …
There are places in Vienna that reveal themselves slowly, not through a single monument, but through the way everything comes together. Albertinaplatz is one of those places. At first glance, it feels …
There are works of art that you admire, and then there are works you move through, slowly, almost instinctively, as if they are guiding you. Hidden beneath the Secession Building, the Beethoven …
There are places in Vienna that feel rooted in history, and then there are places that feel like they changed it. Standing quietly yet unmistakably along Friedrichstrasse, the Secession Building is one …
