Mandalay Meandering
Mandalay – the name with the ring of the exotic. in reality, it does retain a sense of old Burmese culture but with an overlay of modern development. The commercial… Read more »
Mandalay – the name with the ring of the exotic. in reality, it does retain a sense of old Burmese culture but with an overlay of modern development. The commercial… Read more »
Our tour truly begins today, although we have already been saturated with enough colors and smells to bring home more than a whiff of Myanmar. Mary and Michael arrive as… Read more »
Sometime reading tour books and doing on-line research provides a sense of what lies ahead in an experience in a strange land. And sometimes it creates a false preconception. … Read more »
There is a patchwork of rich greens and browns as we fly into Yangon, above the Irrawaddy Delta of Myanmar/Burma. It is the end of the rainy season so the… Read more »
There are few places on earth that elicit more of the sense of the exotic than the country that was once called Burma, with its heart in Rangoon, ruled by… Read more »
We are on the public bus between Grenada and the small mountain town of Ronda. There are brown hills covered with golden grass and olive trees, rockier than my northern… Read more »
Granada is a bustling city with its main street lined with banks and stores and a sense of commerce on the move. Here, as in Madrid, it is hard to… Read more »
The largest and most beautiful city in Europe in the 1200’s still shines but slightly tarnished by its political history. The culture that made it rich, the Arabic and Jewish… Read more »
Like many old city towns which needed defense, the old heart of Toledo stands on a hill with a river on two sides and fortified walls on the others. It… Read more »
Another visit to a land of great beauty and violent history, traveling to the important medieval cities of Spain, Toledo, Cordoba, Grenada, and Seville; seeing in person the wonders created… Read more »