Amidst years spent in the high-octane economies of Asia full of aspirational youth and rapidly growing businesses, I made a visit to the ...

Quite possibly the premiere tourist attraction in Spain , the Alhambra is a millennium old citadel perched on the hills of Granada. Drama...

Alain, a friend of mine, hosted me in Bilboa for a couple of days. I had first met Alain in China, while sailing the Li River near Yangsh...

Minutes before the clock struck midnight (GMT+1), I landed in Barcelona. I caught a bus to Plaza Catalunya, the epicentre of the city. ...

As part of my Eurotrip , I caught a train in France that crossed Belgium to get to Holland. I dropped off my luggage in Eindhoven, where  f...

While spending a week in France in the summer of 2007 , I took two day trips. One was to see the famous gardens at Versaille and the other ...

I got up early Sunday morning for my second day of sightseeing in London . I met up with an ex-colleague from Vancouver who took me to the...

After a summer in Paris several years ago, a winter in Europe's other great city was in order. I jetted from New York to London, arr...

I visited the Notre Dame de Paris on my second day in the city, and met up with an outspoken Frenchman named Jacques there. We had worked to...

On the banks of the river Seine over 60,000 square metres of prime Paris real estate is occupied by the finest museum I have been to. As I a...

Ypres is a historic town in West Flanders, Belgium. The site of several significant battles during World War I, the town was left in ruins b...

It was the summer of 2007. My year in India with Satyam had come and gone. An additional month of travel and goodbyes, and I was on a flight...