Archive: Trips 2021-2025

This page lists the travelogues for trips I have taken in 2021-2025. For more recent trips, click here.

2025: Melbourne and Sydney

• The Australian Adventure
• Shrine of Remembrance
• Werribee Mansion
• La Trobe Reading Room
• The Ian Potter Centre
• Melbourne Museum
• Abbotsford Convent
• The Anzac Memorial
• St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney
• Hyde Park
• Hyde Park Barracks
• The Coastal Walk from Bondi to Coogee
• One Central Park

2025: Wrocław

• A Weekend in Wrocław
• Old Town Wrocław
• Wrocław Cathedral
• Dwarves and Green Spaces
• Hala Stulecia
• The Japanese Garden of Wrocław
• National Museum in Wrocław

2025: Hamburg

• A Birthday Getaway Without a Camera
• Jellyfish*

2025: Shanghai and Hangzhou

• Cavorting in China
• Aurora Museum
• Pudong
• The Bund
• The French Concession
• West Lake
• Three Pools Mirroring the Moon
• Leifeng Pagoda
• Nanping Mountain
• 1933 Old Millfun
• Oriental Pearl Tower
• Zhujiajiao
• Yu Garden

2025: Rhine Gorge, Mainz, and Worms

• Rheinburgenweg: Leg 1 - Bingen am Rhein to Trechtingshausen (12.3 km)
• Rheinburgenweg: Leg 2 - Trechtingshausen to Bacharach (20.9 km)
• Rheinburgenweg: Leg 3 - Bacharach to Oberwesel (13.4 km)
• Rheinburgenweg: Leg 4 - Oberwesel to Sankt Goar (9.6 km)
• Interludes from the Rheinburgenweg
• Burg Rheinstein
• Burg Reichenstein
• Burg Sooneck
• Old Town Bacharach
• Gutenberg Museum
• Der Hohe Dom zu Mainz
• Mainzer Promenade
• The Churches of Mainz
• Burg Schönburg
• Burg Rheinfels
• Worms Cathedral
• The Luther Monument in Worms

2025: Vietnam and Cambodia

• The Indochina Adventure
• Exploring Ho Chi Minh City
• Independence Palace
• Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts
• Angkor Wat
• Pre Rup
• Ta Prohm
• Bayon
• Baphuon
• The Terrace of the Elephants and Beyond
• Ta Som
• Neak Poan
• Preah Khan
• Wat Preah Prom Rath
• Hội An
• Mỹ Sơn
• The Dragon Bridge in Da Nang
• Museum of Cham Sculpture
• Linh Ung Pagoda
• Marble Mountains
• The Imperial City of Huế
• The Tomb of Tự Đức
• The Tomb of Minh Mạng
• The Tomb of Khải Định
• Phong Nha Cave
• Paradise Cave

2025: Côte d'Azur

• Working Remotely in the Côte d'Azur
• Musée Cernuschi
• Colline du Château
• Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate de Nice
• Musée Masséna
• Casino de Monte-Carlo
• Walking All Over Monaco
• Villa Kerylos
• Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
• Ventimiglia
• Cannes
• Sentier du Littoral

2025: Cologne

• Kölner Dom
• Museum of East Asian Art

2024: Japan

• A Journey to Japan
• The Homecoming
• Nishinomiya Shrine
• Sōraku-en
• Kobe Port Tower
• Kitano Ijinkan District
• Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
• Nakanoshima Museum of Art
• Osaka Castle
• Umeda Sky Building
• Mount Kōya
• The Ruins of Tokushima Castle
• Awa Jurobe Yashiki
• The Awa Odori
• Ritsurin Garden
• Takamatsu Castle
• Konpira-san
• Zentsū-ji
• Shikoku Mura
• Okayama Castle
• Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art
• Kurashiki
• Kōraku-en
• Itsukushima Shrine
• Daishō-in
• Hiroshima Peace Memorial
• Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
• Iwakuni
• Dazaifu Tenmangū
• Karatsu
• Fukuoka Tower
• Ōhori Park
• Central Fukuoka

2024: Saxon Switzerland

• Festung Königstein

2024: Bavaria

• Working Remotely in Bavaria
• Kaiserburg Nürnberg
• The Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Landshut
• Old Town Landshut
• Burg Trausnitz
• KOENIGmuseum
• Fränkischer Dünenweg: Leg 5 - Feucht to Altdorf (22 km)
• Donau-Panoramaweg: Leg 1 - Neustadt an der Donau to Kelheim (23.5 km)
• Dom St. Stephan in Passau
• Veste Oberhaus
• Old Town Passau
• The BMW Complex
• Asam Church
• Marienplatz
• Pinakothek der Moderne

2024: Stuttgart

• A Weekend Where It All Started
• Strolling in Stuttgart
• Landesmuseum Württemberg

2024: Glasgow

• Glasgow Necropolis
• Along the River Clyde
• Riverside Museum
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
• University of Glasgow
• Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery

2024: Halle an der Saale and Merseburg

• The Birthday Getaway
• Merseburg Cathedral
• Merseburg Castle
• Old Town Merseburg
• Speiseberg*

2024: Oxford and London

• Easter in England
• University of Oxford
• Bodleian Library
• Ashmolean Museum
• Magdalen College
• Tate Britain
• Royal Albert Hall
• National Portrait Gallery
• Westminster Abbey
• Brompton Cemetery

2024: Andalusia

• The Andalusian Adventure
• The Alcazaba of Almería
• Cable Inglés
• Catedral de la Encarnación de Almería
• Mojácar
• Guadix
• Guadix Cathedral
• Castillo de Santa Catalina
• The Arab Baths of Jaén
• Jaén Cathedral
• Bagá*
• Baeza
• Úbeda
• Fortaleza de La Mota
• Priego de Córdoba
• The Dolmens of Antequera
• El Torcal de Antequera

2024: Montreal and Toronto

• Cavorting in Canada
• Vieux-Port de Montréal
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
• Outremont
• Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal
• Biodôme de Montréal
• Downtown Montreal
• McGill University and Mount Royal
• Biosphère de Montréal
• York Cemetery

2023: Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil

• Cavorting by the Rivers
• Playa Brava in Punta del Este
• The Peninsula of Punta del Este
• Casa Rivera in Montevideo
• Montevideo's Open Spaces
• Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral
• Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales
• Colonia del Sacramento
• Recoleta
• Cementerio de la Recoleta
• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
• Galerías Pacífico
• Puerto Iguazú
• Itaipu Dam
• Iguazu Falls (Garganta del Diablo)
• Iguazu Falls (Circuito Inferior y Superior)
• Iguazu Falls (The View from Brazil)
• San Ignacio Miní
• Posadas
• The Sculptures of Resistencia
• Corrientes
• Catedral Metropolitana de Buenos Aires
• Teatro Colón
• Museo del Bicentenario
• El Zanjón de Granados
• The Plazas of Buenos Aires

2023: Paris

• Easter in Paris
• Musée des Arts et Métiers
• Musée Carnavalet
• Musée Rodin
• Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

2023: Barcelona

• Bellesguard
• Museu del Disseny
• Museu d'Història de Barcelona
• Fundació Joan Miró
• Montserrat
• Museu d'Història de Catalunya

2023: Saxony

• Malerweg: Leg 5 - Neumannmühle to Schmilka (14 km)
• Malerweg: Leg 6 - Schmilka to Gohrisch (17 km)
• Malerweg: Leg 7 - Gohrisch to Weißig (17 km)
• Malerweg: Leg 8 - Weißig to Pirna (14 km)

2023: Naples and Pompeii

• Natale a Napoli
• Palazzo Reale di Napoli
• Pompeii
• Castel Sant'Elmo
• Certosa di San Martino
• Castel dell'Ovo
• Basilica di San Francesco di Paola
• Galleria Umberto I
• Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
• Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

2023: Malta

• Palazzo Falson
• Casa Rocca Piccola
• Barrakka Gardens

2023: Turkey

• The Anatolian Adventure
• Ankara Castle and Aslanhane Mosque
• Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
• Anıtkabir
• Mevlâna Museum
• Karatay Madrasa
• Museum of Stone and Wood Art
• Sahib-i Ata Museum and Mosque
• Göreme Open Air Museum
• Zelve Open Air Museum
• Paşabağları
• Uçhisar
• Bağlıdere Vadisi
• Sabancı Merkez Camii
• Adana Museum
• Ulu Cami in Adana
• Tarsus
• Hatay Archaeology Museum
• Cave-Church of St. Peter
• Necmi Asfuroglu Museum (Museum Hotel)
• Gaziantep Kalesi
• Zeugma Mosaic Museum
• Old Town Şanlıurfa
• Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum
• Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum
• Göbeklitepe and Harran
• Old Town Mardin
• Mardin City Museum
• Odunpazarı Modern Museum
• Old Town Bursa
• Grand Mosque of Bursa
• The Green Mosque and Green Tomb
• Muradiye Complex
• The Asian Side of the Bosporus

2023: London

• London, Take 3
• Courtauld Gallery
• Tower of London
• Sir John Soane's Museum
• Benares*
• Eltham Palace

2022: Luxembourg and Belgium

• The Ardennes Revisited
• Musée National d'Histoire Militaire
• Musée Automobile
• Mullerthal Trail: Legs 9-10 - Larochette to Mullerthal via Beaufort (20.2 km)
• Mullerthal Trail: Legs 11-13 - Mullerthal to Echternach via Hersberg and Scheidgen (25.3 km)
• St Aubin's Cathedral
• Hôtel de Groesbeeck-de Croix
• Gare de Liège-Guillemins
• Cathédrale Saint-Paul de Liège
• Liège City Centre
• Musée de la Vie wallonne
• La Boverie
• Lier

2022: Southern California

• Cavorting in California
• Aquarium of the Pacific
• Mission San Juan Capistrano
• USS Midway Museum
• Hotel del Coronado
• Cabrillo National Monument
• University of California San Diego
• Japanese Friendship Garden
• San Diego Museum of Art
• Getty Villa
• Palos Verdes Peninsula
• Walt Disney Concert Hall
• Los Angeles Music Center
• Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
• Museum of Latin American Art
• Getty Center

2022: Dublin

• The Dubliner Long Weekend
• Merrion Square and St. Stephen's Green
• Christ Church Cathedral
• National Gallery of Ireland
• Alongside the Liffey
• Kilmainham Gaol
• Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Trinity College Dublin
• Howth Castle and Cliff Walk
• EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
• Saint Patrick's Cathedral
• National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology

2022: Hungary

• Székesfehérvár
• Vác

2022: Madrid

• Meandering in Madrid
• Estación de Chamberí
• Templo de Debod
• Parque del Buen Retiro
• From Plaza de Oriente to the Segovia Viaduct
• Las Ventas
• Círculo de Bellas Artes

2022: Tuscany

• Traipsing in Tuscany
• Arezzo's Historic Centre and Antique Market
• Duomo di Arezzo
• Santa Maria della Pieve
• Fortezza dell'Albornoz
• Pozzo di San Patrizio
• Historic Centre of Orvieto
• Duomo di Orvieto
• Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Orvieto
• Sansepolcro
• Duomo di Sansepolcro
• Views of Siena
• Palazzo Pubblico
• Chiesa di San Martino
• Battistero di San Giovanni
• Siena's Crypt
• Duomo di Siena
• Climbing the Cathedral's Roof
• Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Siena
• Fortezza Medicea
• Food in Tuscany (Part 1)
• The Old Walls of Lucca
• Chiesa di San Michele in Foro
• Palazzo Pfanner
• Basilica di San Frediano
• Castelnuovo di Garfagnana
• Pietrasanta
• Galleria degli Uffizi
• Alongside the Arno
• Palazzo Pitti
• Giardino di Boboli
• Jeff Koons in the Palazzo Strozzi
• Basilica di Santa Croce
• Palazzo Medici Riccardi
• Food in Tuscany (Part 2)

2021: Bavaria

• Bumming Around Bavaria
• Fränkischer Dünenweg: Leg 1 - Altdorf to Weißenbrunn (12.7 km)
• Museum for Historical Maybach Vehicles
• Museum Lothar Fischer
• The Old Town of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
• Fränkischer Dünenweg: Leg 2 - Weißenbrunn to Röthenbach (14.6 km)
• The Old Town of Regensburg
• Roman Walls and the Danube
• Dom St. Peter
• Schottenkirche
• Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte
• Fränkischer Dünenweg: Leg 3 - Röthenbach to Brunn (19 km)
• Old Town Dinkelsbühl
• Münster Sankt Georg in Dinkelsbühl
• Museum Mobile
• Old Town Ingolstadt
• Museum für Konkrete Kunst
• Fränkischer Dünenweg: Leg 4 - Brunn to Feucht (18 km)
• Tucherschloss and Hirsvogelsaal
• Food in Bavaria

2021: Warsaw and Kraków

• Prancing Around in Poland
• Aleje Ujazdowskie
• Muranów
• POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
• Warsaw Uprising Museum
• Food in Warsaw
• Views of Kraków
• Wawel Castle
• The Jagiellonian Tapestries
• Galicia Jewish Museum
• The Old Synagogue
• Remah Synagogue and Cemetery
• St. Mary's Basilica
• Bottiglieria 1881*
• The Town of Wieliczka
• The Wieliczka Salt Mine
• Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory
• Pharmacy Museum of the Jagiellonian University Medical College
• Food in Kraków

2021: Luxembourg

• Lollygagging in Luxembourg
• Mullerthal Trail: Leg 1 - Echternach to Rosport (8.3 km)
• Mullerthal Trail: Leg 2 - Rosport to Moersdorf (10 km)
• Vianden
• Château de Vianden
• The Kirchberg Plateau
• Mullerthal Trail: Leg 3 - Moersdorf to Herborn (9 km)
• Mullerthal Trail: Leg 4 - Herborn to Echternach (10.5 km)
• Luxembourg American Cemetery
• Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean
• Mullerthal Trail: Leg 5 - Echternach to Berdorf (6.8 km)
• Mullerthal Trail: Leg 6 - Berdorf to Müllerthal (6.4 km)
• Belval Blast Furnace
• Mullerthal Trail: Leg 7 - Müllerthal to Blumenthal (9.3 km)
• Mullerthal Trail: Leg 8 - Blumenthal to Larochette (8.7 km)