You’re visiting Seattle soon. You’ve heard great things, so you’re heading west, just like the settlers did. Most tourists visit during Seattle’s 80-degree summers, which start in mid-July and last until the end of September. You missed that. You’ll probably still have fun though, because Seattle is very trendy now—just give…

“Hey, want to take picture?” shouted the blind hunchbacked native. He motioned us over to the rock on which he was sitting, overlooking vast rice terraces in the distance. Despite his affinity for photography, the man — a member of the ancient Ifugao tribe — was preserved in a time capsule. For…

Far away, in one of the pink towers that stands tall among the simple stucco houses, a faltering voice recites incantations over a loudspeaker. But here, keeping pace in the step of the souk, no one seems to notice. Berbouch vendors continue stirring their snail soup, motorized bicycles release…

Plaza de Colon, Plaza of Columbus. A plaza in Madrid’s heart glorifying a dark imperial past, which has long since become a mecca for the hooligans of Iberia. During the European skateboarding boom of the late 80’s and early 90’s, Plaza de Colon was the place to be due to its accidentally…

Vendi, Vidi, Edi — I came, I saw, I ate. A cheeky distortion of a popular phrase by Julius Caesar, Dictator of Rome and namesake of the Caesar Salad. Yet it was not Caesar who I met on my blisteringly hot first day in Rome but a street band blasting ‘We No…

The plane ride from Miami, Florida to La Habana, Cuba takes less than an hour. It’s a short enough trip that the plane will fly close to the water, pure blue with foamy white crests, and if you look out of the window, far out to the horizon you…

Anyone planning to visit Mexico should strongly consider ditching the beaches for a few days in favor of the country’s giant, Mexico City. Built on the ruins of the capital of the Aztec Empire, the largest metropolis in the Americas is a hectic and contradictory place. The exquisite baroque…