The Times Square Shuffle?

So I was walking along West 72nd street, very possibly the one street I know better than any other in the world, when I came upon this sign, which stopped me in my tracks. The sign is at the corner of Broadway, on the Eastbound side of 72nd, near the 1-2-3 train stop,...

Whatever you do, stay away from Paris Hilton

OK, that’s not exactly what I meant, but apparently, I wasn’t the only person to have a lousy travel experience in France recently. While at the Hilton in Paris, Alex suffered mightily and wrote this “nastygram” while waiting for somebody to...

The Long and Whining Road Home

In retrospect, I should have known this was going to be a tough trip when, at 2am on the Champs-Élysées, three witches joined the taxi queue behind me. Eighteen hours later, I was eating dinner in a Greek restaurant in Brussels. Now, a further 12 hours into the...