Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Gogh's Latest Colors

"Auvers is of severe beauty and the countryside is quaint and quaint". So wrote Vincent in a letter to his brother Theo describing his impressions of Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village thirty...

Ten Highlights of Bogota, Colombia

Welcome to ‘Ten Highlights of Bogota' – a look at Colombia's colourful capital city. To be honest, we were a little sceptical about visiting Bogota. We had heard stories about other travellers...

The Quirky World of MUJAM, Mexico City - Toys and Street Art Galore!

On our fifth visit to Mexico City, we finally made it to MUJAM (Museo del Juguete Antiguo). MUJAM is a a funky and very unique museum dedicated to antique toys and street art. We'd had MUJAM on to-do...

Small Museums

Museums came in three sizes-- tiny (the house where Mozart was born, the house where where Kafka lived), small (2-3 hours sees it all), and big (two hours is just a start). The problem a big museum...

The Tropical Gardens, a Jewel of Art Nouveau Architecture in Havana

The Tropical Gardens are in Havana they are a paradigm of modernist landscape architecture in Cuba and a jewel of art nouveau architecture located in the green lung of the city. With a surface...

Introducing Todos Santos, Baja, Mexico

Founded in 1732 by Jesuit priests and originally a mission, Todos Santos is located at the southern end of the Baja peninsula of Mexico. The town is, in fact, magnificently situated between the...