Toy town, cannabis haven, and endlessly charming with its beautiful canals and crooked buildings, Amsterdam is the place I’ve (more or less) lived for five years and a city I can come fairly close to…
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The Unwritten Guides: Tokyo’s best neighborhoods
This is the Tokyo you always hear about. The technicolor, tech kaleidoscope of anime, manga, video games and bright lights. The crowds of people you have to navigate through, and without a little patience, can…
Thought bubbles: Travel before
Sometimes I wonder what it must have been like to travel before mass tourism. Before guidebooks, before the internet, before Trip Advisor, before data plans and SIM cards. Before globalization and the rapid spread of…
Travel Vignettes — Macau
If you’ve ever been to Portugal, Macau will feel strikingly familiar. A “de-facto” colony of Portugal’s since 1557 it was – surprisingly – only handed back over to China in 1999. So it’s no wonder…
Home on the road
Home when traveling takes many shapes. Sometimes it’s the room booked for three nights. Nondescript beige walls trimmed with thin chocolate molding. Green leaves blowing and bowing outside the window. Wifi that comes in and…
Nostalgia, my funny friend
Nostalgia visits me sometimes. More often than many, I would venture to guess. When it comes, it weighs like a heavy cloud on my chest, moist and full of emotion, threatening to burst, in streams down…