Inevitably, when you’re country-hopping for months at a time and catching up on a country’s history (recent to antiquity) on the airplane ride to said country, you may not understand...

I can’t remember what my initial expectations were of Israel, but I was happily surprised at what we stumbled upon.  Instead of an endless desert with bombs going off left and...

Our guide in the Sahara desert, Mubarak, made a point about the cave nomads we visited: ‘They’re only happy because they don’t know any better. If they were educated, they...

As most of my family and friends know, I was in a major car accident in 1997, here in Paphos. I spent the following week in Nicosia (Cyprus’s capital), mainly...

I’m starting my Morocco Blog at the end of my stay here, as I leave the country.  The past 3 weeks have been a whirlwind.  The first 5 days in...

Chef was amazing and it felt like I was visiting a family member’s home town- it was welcoming and I could have stayed for a long time.  But friends of...

The only thing I knew about Chef (as we began to call it), was that it was blue and that we needed 2 nights there. We arrived after an afternoon...