All kinds of techno and gizmo geeks will love this place. I’m talking about none other than Akihabara Denki Gai – literally translated Akihabara Electric City! Anything electric and electronic, new and used, appliances and components – you name it, you got it. It’s only a few minutes from Tokyo by subway. It’s a big, [...]
As the saying goes, “Do what the locals do.” I say eat what the locals eat. The Asian food scene is a veritable cacophony and harmony of tastes and smells. There are sweet, sour, salty, spicy, too spicy and devilishly spicy flavors. There is comfort and there is strangeness. Only one thing is the same, [...]
Of all the things that made an impression on me in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon, you oldie), Vietnam, the most memorable is the astonishing, shocking site of all those scooters zooming practically on one half of every road there is. Once I got on any street, it is virtually impossible to look anywhere and not [...]
The sun doesn’t shine on Las Vegas, but it’s hot, hot, hot! This is no place for children playing or grown men who wish to play with no money to spend. It has been a while since I’ve last been there but I forget today and remember the temptations like they were yesterday. Endless food [...]
Let me tell you something you probably don’t know yet. Troy, that legendary city where Brad Pitt’s Achilles was shot with an arrow in his heel, is in Turkey. Yes, Turkey that beautiful country of contrasts where East literally meets West in Beyoglu, where the historic ruins of Troy meet the man made wooden horse [...]
