TRAVEL THE WORLD (WHILE STAYING AT HOME) BLOG

Eighteen blogs written and I’m finally discussing a country I’ve visited! Belize surprised and delighted me in so many ways. We stayed at...

My husband and I differ on our favorite fictional Belgian character. Allan likes Tintin. According to Allan, who grew up in Lebanon, in...

The Republic of Belarus has a website and they have recipes! They have other things besides recipes of course – geography, history,...

It wasn't until I watched “Island in the Sun,” a 1957 movie filmed in Barbados, that I realized that I had been seeing a theme in...

I visited Little Bangladesh in Los Angeles, California on March 8, 2020 – one of my last in-person cultural experiences before the...

I see potential here for a literary renaissance in Bahrain. Let me explain. I’m not seeing this renaissance as being the same as the...

Yes, I have watched every movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean series and rode the ride at Disneyland I don’t know how many times. Does...

I don’t remember hearing of Azerbaijan before working my way through the list of countries, but it didn’t take me long to find the Novruz...

It’s almost as far from the east to west coast of Australia as from the east to west coast of the United States. So I was surprised when...

Experiencing Armenia while staying at home can range from enjoying the light movie Lost and Found in Armenia (which I watched on Amazon)...

If you are going to cook something from Argentina, empanadas would be a good idea. From the various empanada places I've tried around...

Jamaica Kincaid is not only a prolific Antiguan-American writer, she is also a professor at Harvard University. She is famous enough that...

A search in the San Bernardino County Library database for Antarctica Fiction brings 147 results but I chose to read Tomorrow by Scott...

To be fair, Anguilla is not on the United Nations list of member states. It's a British Overseas Territory. That hasn't stopped me from...

Andorra doesn't sound all that different than California. They have skiing and snowboarding in the winter and hiking, mountain biking,...

Angola was in the news in 1997 when Princess Diana walked through a mine field to bring the attention of the world to the plight of the...

I love Revolutionario North African Tacos in Los Angeles which has a French Algerian chef. The tacos have such a great fusion of Algerian...

I must admit that when I think of Afghanistan, I'm more likely to think of deserts and soldiers than travel. However, it was a novel...

When looking for ways to travel to Albania while staying at home, don't believe the reviews that say Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare...