Hong Kong Park is located near the base of the famous Victoria Peak tram in downtown Hong Kong on Hong Kong Island. This park is a beautiful oasis of green in the cityscape and it is a must stop for families rushing their kids through the Hong Kong sights.

Kids of all ages will love this [...]

The first thing I should say is that we have been loving Hong Kong. The food is great. The sightseeing is great. The shopping is great.
That being said, one thing that has surprised me about Hong Kong that this photo captures is that sometimes I think Hong Kong was designed by someone with a sore [...]

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This Week’s Guest: Trisha Miller (@travelwriting) of Travel-Writers-Exchange.com. The mystery was finally revealed this week why Trisha’s website has so many hyphens in the URL (and of you need a clue look at the title of this episode).

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This is one of Hong Kong’s famous Star Ferries in a picture taken from one of her sister ships. The Star Ferry is a quick and enjoyable way to travel between Southern Kawloon (the Tsim Sha Tsui or “TST” neighborhood) and Hong Kong island. On our first couple days in Hong Kong it has been [...]

A great place to take pictures in Hong Kong is the colorful flower market. You can also pick up a huge bouquet of flowers for your sweetheart for as little as $2. The market is filled with fragrant flowers such as chrysanthemums, carnations, roses, azalea, hydrangeas and myriad orchids. There are cut flowers, potted [...]

This week I have been showing photos from Liverpool in the United Kingdom (also in Britain, Great Britain, England, and probably 5 other places that we yanks can’t figure out). The people in Liverpool are not dumb. In addition to the Magical Mystery Tour you can even find references to the Beatles in places like [...]

Yesterday I mentioned the Magical Mystery Tour in Liverpool. This is the house where John Lennon grew up in Liverpool. A surprising number of Beatles songs were written in the front room of this house. You might be able to make out a blue plaque on the house which marks it as a historic site.

You [...]

I had the opportunity this week to interview Peter Greenberg via video from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Peter talks about the food, history and culture of the Dominican Republic. We also talked briefly about nearby Haiti that Peter has continually been trying to keep in the public consciousness.
Santo Domingo, the capital [...]

In case you missed  Travel to Liverpool – Beatles Magical Mystery Tour – Amateur Traveler Video Episode 45, one of the things that my family did when we visited Liverpool was take a Beatles tour. Actually it would be more fair to say that we went to Liverpool just for this tour. So we enjoyed [...]

Liverpool has a number of interesting buildings including this recent addition which is the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral nicknamed Paddy’s Wig-Wam. Built in 1962 the cathedral was designed by English architect Frederick Gibberd who won the honor in a competition.

This interesting building is the Grand Central Hall. It was built originally as a Methodist church. The [...]