With only a short boat ride from Sabah's capital, Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo, the island of Gaya is a healing refuge for both men and creatures.
From the deck of a speeding motor boat scuttling along at 25 knots,...
K uala Lumpur is going through an identity crisis.For visitors, it is a place that embraces idle wanderers. For locals, they see it as a restless teenager in tattered-jeans and piercings clamoring for justice whilst trying to get drunk on teh-tarik.To...
At magic hour, when cotton clouds roll in and drape a cool shade over the land below, a girl lights a candle at the St. Nedelya Cathedral. Military officers, anchored for several hours at the Office of the President...
Distilling the joys and pleasures of travel and welcoming the new realities moving forward in a post COVID world
The English woman and my American partner had lost their grip. Between the voice from our rental car’s GPS and my...
From the Pyrenees to the jagged coastal coves of Costa Brava, Spain's Catalonia stirs inspiration and saccharine summer dreams.
It was hard to say when summer arrived in the Alt Empordà, the upper part of Catalonia, in the northeast corner...
August is coming to a close in Lucca, a masterfully preserved medieval Italian city situated some 50 kilometers to the west of Florence and a short 15 minute drive from Pisa’s Galileo Galilei International Airport. The sweltering Tuscan heat...
Seville is dazzling and bewitching. It's a city of story and souls - from its flamencos, flourishing architecture and muti-layered faiths. Seville blooms at any given season, come night or day. He could have been a converso. But he is...
My first glimpse of La Sagrada Familia, a fanciful looking cathedral and the most imposing landmark in the city of Barcelona, is of curious tourists gazing toward the sheer verticality of the somewhat melted cake like structure.
'If you only...
Travelers have been talking in reverent tones about a number of encouraging sights they noticed in Lisbon. It seemed it was all people could talk about lately. It hadn’t been long since the conversation shifted from austerity, youth unemployment...
Lah.
Go ahead, say it.
It's kinda' like saying 'aaa' at the dentist, only shorter, and with a little more love.
Got it? Good. Because 'Lah' is the word that will turn your trip in Malaysia into a great adventure.
It's the open...
