BEIJING — We recently spent a day and a half in Beijing – a city of over 20 million people, capital city of China, and home of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics – and found it polluted and sometimes depressing but… Continue Reading
PHU QUOC, VIETNAM – I love to travel, but I’m getting old. I know it because on our recent 10-day Asia trip, I became a shell of myself and slowly withered away health-wise due to stupidity and a little bit… Continue Reading
HANOI — The sights, the sounds, and the smells are mesmerizing. Anthony Bourdain says Hanoi is the fragrance of “motorbike exhaust, fish sauce, incense, the faraway smell of something — is that pork grilling over charcoal?… It could be no place… Continue Reading
♠ BOOK IT! Travel Book Roundup (Winter 2017). We’ve got a few Lonely Planet titles to tell you about (a trio of destination guides to Southeast Asia), a tempting worldwide food guide (Food Trails from Lonely Planet Food), as well as Atlas Obscura, one our… Continue Reading
TOKYO — Asakusa is a great neighborhood to spend some time in and, dare we say it, base your weekend in Tokyo around. It’s close to both airports (Haneda and Narita) by train, full of shops and interesting sights, has a… Continue Reading
KRABI, THAILAND — It seemed a good idea at the time: take a long-tail boat to an essentially deserted island in Thailand, then cross over by foot on a sandbar to the other sexy island nearby, lounge on the beach for an hour or… Continue Reading
THE GATE HOTEL Asakusa Kaminarimon by HULIC was our home base for our recent stay in Tokyo, and we can safely say it’s the spot to be in Tokyo’s Asakusa neighborhood (see our post on what to do with 2 days… Continue Reading
BANGKOK — Traveling to Bangkok, I was full of anticipation to check out the Sky Bar at the grandiose Lebua at State Tower hotel. The bar appears on most top-rooftop-bars-in-Bangkok lists, and is tops on TripAdvisor (rated #3 for nightlife in Bangkok… Continue Reading
Apologies for lack of posts in past month or two. We just returned home from a three-week trip to Asia that saw us visit five countries and eight cities (we’ve done more in less time but sometimes it’s better to… Continue Reading