Vlog

We began our cruise along the great Nile River in the city of Aswan. That’s a name familiar to anyone who grew up in the USSR in the seventies/eighties – and, I’m told, in the UK, where, apparently, its main feature (see below) was studied in middle-school geography classes (yet – no mention of Soviet […]

When I first visited stunning Luxor back in 2022 (on my first trip to Egypt), I heard that tourist boats ply the great Nile River on the Luxor–Aswan route, and that it comes highly recommended for exploring firsthand. Just four (far from boring) years later, and business has brought me back to the land of […]

Before our very eyes, technological progress has once again bolted ahead at full gallop. It’s all we can do to keep shutting them (or opening them wide) in astonishment! In literally just a few years, countless AI this-that-and-the-others have gone from being things like dim-witted but tireless talking parrots, to intelligent tools able to solve […]

On the main street of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, stands this rather confident-looking structure. What’s more… it’s of a somewhat unusual design for Southeast Asia: It’s called Patuxai, and it turns out it’s an “Arc de Triomphe”. But that figures, since Laos is a former French colony (and you still quite often see and […]

ສະບາຍດີທຸກຄົນ! Let me continue my tourism tales in and around Vientiane – the capital of Laos. Located 25km from the city center by road (15km as the crow flies) is a rather curious little place that goes by the name of Buddha Park. Here, on a relatively small patch of land (180x100m), stand around two […]

Ooh – déjà vu! These scenes out the window sure looked familiar – but of course they did: I was only here last month!… And here are some of our guests flying in!…