There are three big reasons why I enjoy foreign languages. The first stems from wanting to understand what to order on worldwide menus; it’s less to avoid ordering certain things,…

Chungking Mansions was part of a weekly ritual for me when I lived in Hong Kong, and to a lesser extent Shenzhen, right across the border. Chungking Mansions was a…

In early 2022, I had come across an article about an airline status match with ITA Airways, the carrier borne out of the rubble of Italy’s Alitalia.  Basically, if you had…

In 2017, I had the opportunity to visit the Marshall Islands.  After a seemingly endless series of red-eye flights from Fiji on Our Airline, I made it to Majuro, capital…

In what I hope is merely the first of a bunch of posts about how to improve your experience when booking flights, here’s my first United Airlines fare search hack…

Beyond snorkeling between schools of tropical fish and rubbish floating by a jetty near Hulhumale’, and getting nauseous from diesel fumes from the ferries, I wasn’t sure what else to…