Forget Starbucks! Once you see the grand, opulent coffee houses here, you’ll crave atmosphere, as much as caffeine, when you stop to enjoy your morning mojo. A Hungarian woman drinks cappuccino in the New York Café. Built in 1894, and attached to the New York Palace hotel, it was considered the most elegant and popular of the 500 coffee houses that thrived […]
Election Day here in the USA…standing in one of those ballot boxes today made me think of Morocco’s system for voting. Drive through the rural areas and you’ll see the voting wall simply painted on the side of a concrete building, such as an elementary school like you see in the image below. Candidates are separated […]
Mozart, Freud, Beethoven, Marx & Peter the Great have all stayed here. After all, ever since the 1500s, it was the place to go for relaxation, cleansing and healing. Doctors actually prescribed 2-3 week stays at this spa town, where guests typically didn’t bathe in the mineral waters, but drank them! They still do. Take a 2 hour bus ride […]
The Great Wall of China. Just uttering those words conjures up images of that long fortified wall snaking up and over forested hills—stretching an incredible 5,000 km across the northern reaches of China’s vast country. I had wanted to see it, walk on it, experience it, for a very long time. And now I was […]
A trio of monks meditating at a temple entangled in a strangler fig f/6.3, SS 60, ISO 320, off camera fill flash
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