Culture

I love quirky cultural traditions, and Basel's Carnival celebration is right up there when it comes to quirky. In our years in Switzerland, Tom...

Basel Fasnacht, as Carnival is known here, is conducted primarily in Basel Deutsch, the local German dialect. In fact, many of the terms describing...

It's February in Switzerland's Lötschental, a long valley deep in the hinterlands of the Bernese Alps. Mountains are blanketed with white powder, and the...

  At the cusp of a new year, Tom and I have realized with a start, that another year has just zipped by. In 2014,...

  Last month, my camera and I spent two weeks at the Sherpa Outdoor Orphan Home in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was my second visit in...

 Cologne, Germany is a magnet for fans of Christmas markets. It's one of the most-visited Advent season celebrations anywhere, located in seven venues spread...

There are Christmas markets all over Europe, but some of the best are in Germany. No surprise, since so many of our holiday traditions...

No trip to Sri Lanka is complete without at least a pass through the country's glorious central hill country. Go one better, though, and...

There is no hurrying a Sri Lanka hill country train, nor would you want to. The joy is in the going, the landscape that...

When we decided to return to Portugal for a month-long stay, Anita and I wanted to be based in Lisbon, but away from much-touristed...