The Compleat Traveller

With a little more than two weeks left before I depart for New York City, you can be sure that I am fully engaged in all aspects of plann...

Rue Rossini bike share rack in Paris, France Well, it has been a long time coming, but New York City has finally caught up with many o...

The Reading List today looks at the letters of famous (and infamous) writers of notes, letters and other correspondence. Appropriately e...

Newtown Creek barges © Bernie Ente The recent Circumnavigate Staten Island tour was completely sold out, and the next Working Harbor ...

... In Greece, roadside memorials to accident victims take the form of miniature churches, which tend to be adorned with candles, an i...

I’ve written before about my voyage on the wonderful Hidden Harbor Tours that operate on the New York harbor, so I won’t repeat myself h...

... It is with a real sense of déjà vu that I write this today, because it is almost exactly a year ago that I took part in one of the New Y...

I recently discovered the wonderful Kickstarter website . Kickstarter enables visitors from all around the world to provide financial suppor...

Image: A view of Manhattan from out in New York Harbor I’ve had a fascination for ships and the sea for as long as I can remember. It eventu...

~ Interesting feature in the April 19, 2010 issue of New York Magazine about the top 50 most livable New York neighbourhoods . I was parti...

~ My entry about an encounter with pickpockets in Greece (see Three Man Crush ) got me thinking about the issue of safety and security whil...

~ In a previous entry ( My New York Marathon ), I wrote about my first full day walking from Greenpoint, Brooklyn across the Williamsburg Br...

~ The weather for the first full day of my New York adventure promised to be cloudy but fine (and bloody freezing). And just so you are not...