International Travel guides

Bangkok Travel Guide Bangkok is the largest city in Thai, and also the most enthralling, hosting the Thailand most beautiful temples and shrines. Waiting till sundown near Wat Arun on the lake is an unforgettable experience, and even if you have no knowledge of history, the grand palace can’t not delight. Bangkok’s energy is incredible, […]

There is no place for prejudices if you the packaging for a visit in the Iran. “Axis of despair”? Most visitors, after coming to this friendliest of countries, would not agree. For those looking for culture, Iran’s magnificent ruins of antique cities, glorious mosques and mausoleums, There are so many brilliant museums to visit you […]

Morocco Morocco is an exciting, unique and friendly country which offers host to a multitude of unforgettable holidays, beach side towns offering warm long days on beautiful shores, long lost cities with a large and varied history, and a varied landscape to explore, ranging from hard deserts, leading to woodland. Whether you want a romantic […]

Portugal Trip : Day 9 Day 9, 21 August: It was a wistful goodbye to Portugal. In the airport, I crossed paths with a Portuguese-Canadian, a woman in her 50s or 60s who said she couldn’t wait to get home to Canada. She was so glad she left, all those years ago, she said. Portugal […]

Portugal Trip : Day 8 Day 8, 20 August: Cathy’s conference over, we left the Marriott. Our Rough Guide suggested O Duque, just under the crest of the hill in Bairro Alto. We went and were treated gruffly by a man there who said he hated George W. Bush. He even had a cartoon that […]

Portugal Trip : Day 7 Day 7, 19 August: I climbed to the top of the Castelo de S’Jorge and admired the view. Below me, Alfama, the Baixa, Bairro Alto, and the River Tagus, or Rio Tejo. Spanning the Tagus, the Ponte 25 de Abril, once known as the Salazar Bridge, after the economics professor […]

Portugal Trip : Day 6 Day 6, 18 August: For breakfast, I had my bica (Portuguese espresso) and a nata (pudding in a small pie crust) at a sidewalk caf’Bicas are strong and oily and wonderful; if your car leaks oil, just replenish it with a bica. And so I had my Latin breakfast. Of […]

Portugal Trip : Day 5 Day 5, 17 August: I spent the morning at the Conimbriga ruins, the best Roman ruins in Portugal. The mosaics, which used to be the floors of wealthy Roman citizens’ houses, are well-preserved. A guide would have been nice, though. I saw two lucky (and probably rich) Americans with theirs, […]

Portugal Trip : Day 4 Day 4, 16 August: Drove from Pinh’ through Lamego to Coimbra, the university city. In Lamego we stopped long enough to admire the pilgrimage church, Nossa Senhora dos Rem’os, high above town. The truly repentant ascend to her on their knees. Portugal is like West Virginia: full of ambitious and […]

Portugal Trip : Day 3 Day 3, 15 August: Awoke at Quinta de la Rosa, a port wine estate in Pinh’ on the Douro River in northern Portugal. The night before, we’d arrived late and found no one from the estate to let us in. Two older Dutch couples pulled in in their rental car […]

Portugal Trip : Day 2 Day 2, 14 August: Cathy and I drove more than 500 km (310 miles) today, from Sintra to Coimbra and through the mountains to Muxagata and Castel Melhor, near Vila Nova Foz C’At Castel Melhor, Cathy and I toured the Penascosa area of the Parque Arqueol??o do Vale do C’. […]