We rushed back from Angkor Wat Sunrise to get changed for our cooking class with Lily’s Secret Garden. Tuk Tuk Bean waited for us even though this wasn’t part of the agreement. But he and his excellent photography skills were the reason we were running late, to begin with. It turned out well because the […]
Luxurious Supanniga Cruise
I booked us on a luxurious cruise on Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River, the Supanniga Sunset Dinner Cruise, more so for the cruise than for the food. On both points though we were not disappointed. We took a Grab Taxi from our hotel through about 30 minutes of evening traffic to River City Pier Two. It […]
NYC Day Trip for Hot Chocolate
I was randomly speaking to colleagues last year when I revealed that I travel to New York City from Washington D.C. to get hot chocolate. It sounded odd to them but it’s true. I book a round trip ticket by train or by bus for the main purpose of delighting in hot chocolate from L.A. […]
Exploring Cádiz
Cádiz was the inspiration for this trip to Andalucia. I had never heard of it until earlier this year when I randomly came across it in a travel journal. Prepared to use up every single day of holidays available to me this year but still wanting to be warm as autumn descended on me, I […]
Seville
The berenjenas fritas con miel de Montoro y queso de cabra de Zuheros in Cordoba kept me happy as I continued my journey by train to Seville. I walked almost a half-hour in a bit of a sketchy area to my little room at the Hotel Alcántara, a Moorish-inspired building in the Jewish quarter of […]
A Day in Cordoba, Spain
The plan for today was to leave Granada first thing in the morning, take the ALSA bus to Cordoba, spend the day there, then take the Renfe train onward to Seville for my next destination. Everything went smoothly. I arrived in Cordoba, left my luggage and walked about 20 minutes to the Mezquita, only to […]
Weekend Sojourn in the Gothic Quarter, Barcelona
The lack of direct flights to Croatia from the US and our attempt to fly as cheaply as possibly called for a layover in Barcelona. Great, since none of us had ever been. Bad, since we were all too tired to be tourists in Barcelona. We flew into Barcelona knowing that we would have to […]
Perfect Few Hours in Zagreb
Since we were three, we booked a triple sleeper compartment on the ÖBB Nightjet (Sparschiene) from Salzburg to Zagreb. The last time I was on a sleeper train, I was ten years old and travelling from Berlin to Brussels. I don’t remember the compartment being this tiny. Through acrobatic feats though, we each changed for […]
Half A Day In Salzburg
One of us is obsessed with The Sound of Music. Which meant we couldn’t arrive in Austria and not pass through Salzburg. So we took a nice mid-morning train ride from Vienna to the Salzburg HauptBahnhof where we stalked the luggage lockers until we successfully found one, luckily a jumbo locker, to place all our […]
A Short Stopover in Vienna
The lack of direct flights to Croatia from the US meant that we had a choice of transit points so we chose Vienna. Neither one of us had been before, so we decided to give ourselves a brief introduction. We stayed in an AirBnB in Stephansplatz in the heart of Vienna. The main highlight here […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.