Behind the tiny Venezuelan beach village of Playa Chuao is a massive banana plantation. For some reason this fascinated the Italian and me. And so, when we disembarked from a fishing boat we had hired to take us to Playa Chuao, we walked right past the beach and the small village and into the banana … Continue reading
Or something else? Like a dogsheep? It was friendly whatever it was… Continue reading
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In conjunction with our visit to, and subsequent reporting on Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum London established a permanent Holocaust exhibition. One component of this exhibition I was particularly impressed by was a model constructed with painstaking detail showing the process by which Jews and others were led off the trains in Birkenau and straight … Continue reading
Actually, our trip through Albania was not intended as a bunker tour, but it is difficult for any trip through Albania to not take on this feel given the literally millions of bunkers scattered across the country (more on that later). We crossed into Albania from Macedonia by utilizing the border crossing at Debar. This … Continue reading
One cool thing about having a girlfriend fluent in German and that lived in Berlin for six months is that a large section of Berlin that is either unknown or inaccessible to tourists becomes accessible. Granted this freedom, one such place to visit is the old Stasi headquarters in the former “East German” section of … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 