To live is to travel and to travel is to live!
What to look for when visiting far-away cities and countries? Just like everyone else, I like to see beautiful buildings, famous museums, towers, bridges and other landmarks. However, in order to learn about the real life, I visit a local food market. This…
A small hairy face is pressed against the glass wall of our bungalow and its brown eyes are thoughtfully examining the room. Soon it is joined by a few more faces and a short but noisy monkey skirmish pronounces the…
Every family, I imagine, has a story about their distant ancestors emerging from the foggy past. Some families trace their roots to an ameba crawling out from the primordial sea, while others – to the hungry crew of Mayflower securing…
Now, here is a question, which can always spark an intriguing conversation around the dinner table. Really, there are many controversial points of view related to the Jewish identity, religion, ethnicity, nationality and many other issues, which can be sorted…
Our large Opel sedan heads south of Kiev across the lifeless steppe, still frozen despite the early April sun. A two-lane road stretches across bare fields and features an increasing number of potholes, directly proportional to the distance we travel…
December 31, 2016 So here we are in Vietnam, a place that used to strike terror in my heart many, many years ago as a student when I waited with baited breath to know what the draft number of my…
I’m riding “shotgun” in a 1928 Ford Cabriolet along a nearly empty six-lane promenade. A sunny Sunday afternoon was tailor-made for cruising in a classic convertible along the Atlantic coast. If this beautiful road were located in Miami, or any…
Bhutan – What is it / where is it / why would you go there? These were the questions that most people asked as I told them about an upcoming trip to this landlocked Himalayan kingdom. Indeed, very few of…
“It is not enough to give fish to a man, you must teach him how to fish”, proclaims a popular saying in America. The message of this proverb usually targets various donor-driven initiatives, which pump billion of dollars into the…
I have not had the “pleasure” of rowing a boat for a few decades. It used to be one of my favorite pastimes in the “old country” to row a leaky old boat to a thin slice of empty dirty…