I just spent two lively days in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, with my family. After traveling overland through the desert from al-Khobar on the Gulf coast, we reached our hotel at around 1 p.m. We stayed at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel on Al Imam Faisal Ibn Turki Ibn Abdullah road, […]
During a recent week-long trip to Flint, Michigan, I drove with my family toward the city of Detroit and crossed Detroit River by way of the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit to Windsor in Ontario, Canada. There is also a tunnel that connects the two cities, but the bridge offers the more scenic route. Since we […]
On a cold and overcast morning in mid-December we headed east – my wife and I – on I-10, past the towers of downtown Houston and industrial plants, and then south on the 610 east loop, over the ship channel bridge and then east again on Texas Independence Highway. We drove through the industrial landscape […]
During my stay in London in the summer this year I spent a pleasant couple of hours walking around Morden Hall Park, which is located in Morden, in southwest London. The park is just a short drive from better-known Wimbledon. The park is owned by the National Trust, an organization that owns many properties around […]
According to the official Llandudno tourism website, Llandudno is American author Bill Bryson’s favorite seaside resort. After spending a week in this town on the North Wales coast, I can understand why so many people like to return to Llandudno for their holidays. Since the Victorian era, the town has been called the “Queen of […]
During my recent trip to Llandudno, in North Wales, I drove with my father across the Menai Straits to visit Parys Mountain on the Isle of Anglesey. I wanted to see the site of an ancient copper mine that some historians say was the largest copper-producing mine in the world during the 18th and 19th […]
I had been warned about the cyclists in Amsterdam by an American colleague at work. I thought, don’t worry about me, I’m a European; well, from England, which is close enough. You don’t need to warn me of such things. My family and I visited Amsterdam for the first time at the beginning of April. […]
Last month I visited London for three days as part of a week-long visit to England. Since it was a short visit I wanted to be close to everything on my list of places to see in the city, which was basically the Tate Britain art gallery. Other than that I thought I’d just let […]
Here is the conclusion to my London walk. To read the first part of my walk, click here. After my lunch I continued along the narrow passageway and came out onto a street called Hatton Garden. There were lots of jewelry stores along this street and apparently the area is famous for dealing in diamonds. […]
I arrived in London on June 6 and had three really excellent days in the city. My brother met me at the airport and took me to my hotel in central London. I stayed at Blades Hotel in the Pimlico district, which is located near Victoria and is close to the Tate Britain art gallery. […]