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Bobby Cuenca
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Lifting the veil of The Glass Palace
by Bobby Cuenca - June 8, 2014 - 12:00am
An excerpt from The River Of Lost Footsteps by Thant Myint-U:
Panic in Shangri-La
by Bobby Cuenca - March 10, 2013 - 12:00am
Wee, sleekit, cow’ring, tim’rous beastie, O what a panic’s in thy breastie! This stanza from Burns, truly idiotic considering the situation I was in, kept swirling in my head as I paced about the...
Sunrise over the nail of the world
by Bobby Cuenca - July 22, 2012 - 12:00am
Our van was traversing the crowded streets when some of us looked out the window. We had just spent the better part of the morning seeing the sights, visions of which were still reverberating in our brains.
Slip sliding away towards the jewel of the Huangpu
by Bobby Cuenca - April 15, 2012 - 12:00am
My wife and I were in Chicago when we got the message from a friend in Hong Kong — would we like to join a three-day cruise from Hong Kong to Shanghai?
'Glamping' in Mongolia, the nomad empire of eternal blue sky
by Bobby Cuenca - February 26, 2012 - 12:00am
It was in the low 40s outside and the comforters and thick blankets that had been provided were in full use.
Temples, kitsch, and imagined lives
by Bobby Cuenca - March 20, 2005 - 12:00am
Ninety kilo-meters south of Naples lies the ruined city of Paestum. Originally known as Poseidonia after the Greek god of the sea, ancient legend had it that the city was founded by Jason and the Argonauts during...
CRETE EXPECTATIONS
by Bobby Cuenca - October 26, 2003 - 12:00am
Crete is the largest and most legendary island in the Greek archipelago. The ancient Greeks revered it as the birthplace of Zeus and feared it as the lair of the Minotaur, whose insatiable appetite demanded the lives...
Was this Atlantis?
by Bobby Cuenca - August 31, 2003 - 12:00am
Twenty years ago, a group of friends and I took a simple ferry boat ride from the island of Mykonos to the island of Santorini. After a trip of what seemed like eternity and just as the sun was about to set, I became...
How to survive in a nude beach
by Bobby Cuenca - May 4, 2003 - 12:00am
Sun, sand, sea... and sex. That about sums up Mykonos, that little island somewhere in the Cyclades Islands of Alexander the Great’s beloved Greece. What Mykonos lacks in history (it has Neolithic sites and...
The glory that was Athens
by Bobby Cuenca - April 6, 2003 - 12:00am
After spending four days in Rome, the overland portion of our trip through Europe was ending and it was time for our group to part. My sister and niece were leaving for London while my family and I were on our way...
Rome: Tutuban on the Tiber
by Bobby Cuenca - March 30, 2003 - 12:00am
Two thousand years ago, Rome was the master of Europe and the Mediterranean. Rome was the seat of all power and anyone who had any ambition had to go to Rome. Thus was born the saying:"All roads lead to Rome."...
Under the Tuscan sun
by Bobby Cuenca - February 23, 2003 - 12:00am
On a blazingly hot day in June 2001, the time had come for us to leave Venice. Despite the troubles we en-countered during our stay, we all felt that it had been all too brief and that the enormous hordes crowding...
Florence-the flower of the Renaissance
by Bobby Cuenca - February 16, 2003 - 12:00am
Any traveler with an ounce of sensitivity in him will surely be familiar with the subtle twinge of sadness felt when leaving a place he has particularly enjoyed. There is never enough time to see and experience everything...
Florence-the flower of the Renaissance
by Bobby Cuenca - February 9, 2003 - 12:00am
Any traveler with an ounce of sensitivity in him will surely be familiar with the subtle twinge of sadness felt when leaving a place he has particularly enjoyed. There is never enough time to see and experience everything...
VENICE, LA SERENISSIMA
by Bobby Cuenca - November 24, 2002 - 12:00am
In mid-June of 2001, our little troop of travelers set out to leave the little town of Cantello outside of Varese in Northern Italy. Varese, and the Lake District around it, had proven to be a pleasant surprise not...
Grace Kelly’s mini-me kingdom, Julie Andrews’ hills so alive and a charming inn with a view
by Bobby Cuenca - July 28, 2002 - 12:00am
After two days in Roquefort les Pins, it was time to leave Provence and get to the main destination of our trip – Italy.
Do you know the way to St. Paul de Vence?
by Bobby Cuenca - July 21, 2002 - 12:00am
You know you’ve reached Provence when the air becomes pregnant with possibilities.
Do you know the way to St. Paul de Vence?
by Bobby Cuenca - April 7, 2002 - 12:00am
On a very warm summer’s day in Paris in June of 2001, I assembled my wife, our two sons, my sister and my niece for a three week drive from Paris to Rome.
The Louvre & other Seine stealers
by Bobby Cuenca - March 24, 2002 - 12:00am
It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve been to Paris. The minute I stand along the Champs Elysees, or stroll through the Jardin des Tuileries, or walk into Louvre under its Glass Pyramid, or view the Tour...
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