Here are 5 great ways to pass the time on a long flight that you won’t find on other websites. Mainly because these are all actually really bad ideas and neither I nor your airline nor your mother recommend you actually do. 1. Make your own movie. You’ve either seen the few good movies on…
This is a sort-of-guide on how to eat seafood. But let me start by saying I don’t really eat seafood. I’d probably go so far as to say I don’t like it. Occasionally I’ll encounter a calamari, squint at it, maybe even lick it, then order a burger. But for my birthday, my loving girlfriend…
Hiking is good exercise so one fine autumnal day we went hiking in Bear Mountain State Park. However, when you live in New York City, to go hiking you have to walk to the subway – passing a perfectly adequate gym on the way – then take the subway to the bus station, then sit…
Let’s meet an annoying traveler. The wannabe Kerouac. You know the guy. He’s in your hostel dorm, shirtless, wearing a pair of Hawaiian-patterned board shorts, and he’s telling anyone and everyone he can’t wait to get “back on the road”. What “the road” refers to is an ever-changing enigma, meaning anything from an unspecified spiritual…
Hello friends, I just wanted to write and tell you that my apartment in Manhattan is on the ground floor, facing out to the street, and quite often people walk past the window and we make very awkward eye contact.
Here’s what you need to know about Bogotá, Colombia. The city is 2640 meters (8300 feet) above sea level. This means you arrive and get headaches, sniffles, nosebleeds, and you suddenly can’t walk up ten stairs without wheezing like a fat kid with asthma forced to run the 100m at school sports day. It takes…
Vietnam has a lot of riches to see and explore. Here’s what to expect on an overnight tour of Ha Long Bay in the north of the country. Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam is one of the new 7 Natural Wonders of the World. I did a one-night, two-day tour, spending the night on…