The Istanbul Shoe Shine Scam

Our hotel was 2 blocks form Taksim Square, a hot bed of restaurants in Istanbul, so we walked out for dinner. On the way back to our hotel, an intererent shoe shine guy was walking just a head of us...

7 UNESCO Sites to Visit in Iran

It is one of the 10 countries with the most world heritage sites and is rich in culture and history. We will explore some of the less visited UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Iran, which are scattered...

Pick the Mountain Bike Capital of Georgia

Georgia is a peach, but there are a couple of other reasons to PICK Ellijay, the northern corner of the state. It's prime apple orchard country and Georgia's mountain bike capital. Here, the...

Bella Vista, a Bike-In Bike-Out Beauty

Bella Vista, translated from Spanish to English, is simply a beautiful view. There is plenty of beauty, and it's a beautiful thing to pedal right from your yard into a world-class mountain bike trail...

Chinese Food in Melk, Austria

When we travel, and we have done a lot of that, we always head for local food at meal time, until we tire of it. We find that after 7-10 days of eating somebody else's food, we need a break for...

Expo 2020 Dubai | a Trip Around the World in One Day

Held every five years, the first World Expo was in 1851 in London, and the most recent was in Milan in 2015. However, the Dubai Expo 2020 will be the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East...