Fun Facts About Leiden
Fun fact #1: You can get pancakes that are bigger than your head. Seriously — these things are huge: I had this pear and whipped cream pancake at Pannenkoekenhuys Oudt […]
Tag Archives: Animals
Flora & Fauna by the Beaches of Bowen
While I went to the Whitsundays in search of life in the ocean, I found plenty of creatures on land. Most of the birds were not particularly interested in being […]
Dolphins & Disneyfication
Many people go to Lovina Beach in Bali for just one reason: to see the dolphins at sunrise. I will admit that this was a major draw for the two […]
Return to the Granite Island
On Sunday, Prescott and I went with a group of Singapore American School science teachers and a handful of students for an educational morning visit to Pulau Ubin, a small […]
The Last Kampong Standing
Last weekend, Prescott and I visited Lorong Buangkok, the only remaining kampong (village) on the main island of Singapore. The cab dropped us off at 7 Lorong Buangkok, a short […]
Wet, Wet, Wet
If you’re ever in Hamden, Connecticut, and the temperature starts rising, you might wonder why there’s so much water nearby and nowhere to swim. You can’t swim in Lake Whitney […]
Shady Spots & Shipwrecks
For our second day in the Peloponnese, Jocelyn and I drove up to Polidroso (also known as Tsitsina, its Turkish name), a charming village in the Parnassos mountains. This was […]
Across the Gulf & to the Farm
Three days ago, we drove from Delphi down to the Peloponnesian Peninsula. The drive took us along the Gulf of Corinth, which pretty much divides Greece in two (the Gulf […]
Going Green
Nina, Nelson and I started our last day in Bali at Ubud’s Sacred Monkey Forest. Here, hundreds of semi-tame long-tailed macaques swing through the trees and — more often — […]
Welcome to Bali
My friend Nina and her son Nelson have come to visit from Baltimore, and we’re taking a three-day weekend in Bali! Of Indonesia’s thousand plus islands, this one is the […]
