Homemade Lemon Cake

Sometimes it is better to have dumb luck than to be good. We had been studying Italian for about three months prior to our recent trip, an...

I loved this place--I particularly love the ability to try a number of different barolos before buying, and while only manned by one perso...

The area has astounding temples, this one being the least well preserved, but still quite spectacular--it pales in comparison to the others...

Like other monuments in Mahabalipuram, the Trimurti Cave Temple is a rock-cut structure, meaning it was created by carving directly into a...

This magnificent relief, carved in the mid-seventh century, measures approximately 30m (100ft) long by 15m (45ft) high. Its huge size and s...

Mahabalipuram, 50km south of Chennai, was the major seaport of the ancient Pallava kingdom based at Kanchipuram. We spent a morning explor...

St. Emilion is a medieval era town in terms of architecture, but has been continually inhabited since about 35,000 BCE. The Romans planted ...

Ancestral Temples in Hoi An. We were here on the eve of Hung King Commenoration Day, a holiday dedicated to remembering. Since Confucianism...

Hoi An Ancient town is located in Viet Nam’s central Quang Nam Province, on the north bank near the mouth of the Thu Bon River that at one ...

Between the 4th and 13th centuries a unique culture which owed its spiritual origins to Indian Hinduism developed on the coast of contempor...

We started the (very hot) day at the Hue Historic Citadel—it is a walled fortress that served as the capital of the Nguyen Dynasty, the las...

We went on an overnight cruise on Ha Long Bay, part of the Bay of Tonkin where the US provoked an attack by the VietcCong to justify our Am...

Built by Emperor Ly Thanh Tong during the Ly dynasty, the Temple of Literature (Văn Miếu in Vietnamese) was erected in honour of the philos...