Turns out, Shakira’s moves aren’t so unique after all. In fact, her signature hip moves are the dance moves of her home town of Barranquilla, Colombia. Barranquilla is also home...

A friend of mine coined the phrase “You’ve been Spain’d” to refer to poor service here in Spain.  This country, like Portugal, has come a long way in customer service...

When you hear the word ‘graffiti’, you may think spray-paint, vandalism and cryptic territorial signatures.  Street Art, though a subcategory of graffiti, instead invokes artistic images in public spaces that spark discussions.  Graffiti...

We like to joke that traditional Czech food is grey.  And in truth, there’s not much color to it.  Heavy in meat, salt and starch, it’s difficult to locate vegetables that have...

A Cafe culture has taken over beer-swilling Prague.  While Czechs still drink more beer per capita than any other nation (on average, 143 liters per year for every citizen including infants and...

Do you remember Lidice?  If you didn’t live during WWII, come from Germany or Czechoslovakia, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it. Lidice was a sleepy farming town, 22...

Prague’s beauty is mesmerizing.  I find myself repeating the phrase “this is ridiculous…” every time I turn a corner to see what a new street will display.  The capital city...

In the last 3 weeks, I visited a friend’s family in Bihač, Bosnia, an old coworker and her husband in Shepherds Bush, London, good friends I got to know during my time...

We continued through Bosnia from Mostar to Sarajevo, where we’d be spending 3 full days with 2 Remotes who were flying in before heading north to visit my old co-worker’s...

Let’s jump 75 feet from a perfectly stable bridge into 46-degree water below, in mid-November, shall we?  My friend Kara and I stopped by Mostar, one of the oldest cities...