(All photos by the author. Click on them to enlarge and read the captions. Forgive me for not switching to a Portuguese keyboard so the text is missing proper accents and diacritical marks). I spent four days in Lisbon in May 2016 and it sparked my interest in seeing more of Portugal. Additionally, my bio…
(All photos by the author. Click on them to enlarge them and to read the captions, and use your arrows to scroll forward and reverse. I did not switch to a Portuguese keyboard so the text lacks proper accents and diacritical marks). Friends who had visited the Portuguese island of Madeira had raved about it…
My guidebook to Cuernavaca includes a list of my favorite places in Mexico City and Acapulco. See https://jimhornnews.com/guide. But I want to share this tip with my readers who frequent the Pacific paradise. I stay in a wonderful condo with a 180-degree view of the bay, but it’s not on the water. Some of the…
UPDATE: As of April 2023 the toll for the three minute drive has risen to 75 pesos, 150 pesos round trip, so most drivers take the old highway. (Local residents get a discount). Except at rush hour there is almost no traffic through the tunnel. The price should be dropped to encourage more usage and…
CUERNABUS, THE CITY’S TOURIST ATTRACTION The Cuernabus tours that had been reduced only to weekends and holidays are now running again seven days a week. The one-hour-twenty-minute tour of Cuernavaca departs from centro daily at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, and 5 pm. This is a private service owned by Pullman de Morelos.…
(Click on the photos to enlarge them and read the captions, then use the forward arrow to scroll through the others in each series). The rise of the dollar against the euro has made travel to Europe somewhat reasonable again. And who doesn’t love Italy? I had traveled extensively there a dozen times including leading…
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YOU CAN AFFORD TO GET SICK HERE: MEDICAL CARE IN CUERNAVACA I am often disgruntled by travel articles, especially those advising Americans on the best places to retire, that lack information on health services and medical care. Some of the magazines specializing in this genre seem to glorify medically-challenged…
Unless otherwise noted, all photos are by the author. Click on a photo to enlarge it to read captions and use your forward arrow to view other photos in the series. Here is a city that’s not on the radar of most American travelers: here is why it ought to be. I hadn’t visited Portugal…
A good friend has been raving to me for years about Silversea cruise line and she has sailed more than 200 days with them. But the dates when I could try the line never coincided with destinations that interested me, or the ships departed from places like Dubai or Singapore, adding a small fortune to…
JAPAN IN CHERRY-BLOSSOM SEASON April 10-26, 2016 I had never been to Asia and friends convinced me correctly that Japan was a great destination so I signed on to a tour with Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT). I was not pleased with the operational policies of OAT which I will evaluate at the end of the…
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