World Chump - Wanderlust

Another title for this column would be ‘Kathmandu And the Bhands: Revisited’. Over night, fuel prices virtually double on an executive order by President Evo Morales, thus ending our stay in this Andean nation without any violent incidents. There’s also a good chance that the protests that started...

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On a weekend Niko, my friend and Spanish teacher, takes me on a guided tour of downtown La Paz, a healthy distance (at ...

There are always certain milestones you brace yourselves for as parents. When your kid finally walks, speaks his first ...

Wherever I’ve been in the world, I have always discovered there are different reasons why certain things don’t get ...

For everything Bolivia and the rest of South America have to offer from a standpoint of cultural diversity, I never ...

The day before we leave Arica, we need to stock up on our shopping. There is no particular reason for this - ...

The next day I go for a run in the morning along the beach. I noticed the evening before that there are hundreds of ...

It is late Thursday night, November 11, which means that by tradition, Fasching has started in Germany thousands of ...

When somebody mentions the expression ‘black market’, what exactly does the imagination conjure up? Back alleys and ...

One of the reasons I was looking forward to Bolivia was the assurance that I was going to be in a soccer country ...

At first, I wanted to name this particular post ‘street shows’, but that would imply that these had been elaborately ...

This means, the city, in this case my new home of La Paz. I have already mentioned the altitude here, how it feels ...

Before heading to La Paz, we were told about many things to look for here by colleagues and friends, the altitude ...

That's actually how they say it in La Paz. I can chuck the old Buenos Dias, as I have always known it. It is ...

I climb up on the roof, all the way to the water tower as I usually do whenever I have a moment to myself. I gaze at ...

Whenever you think of shopping centers in our day and age, I suppose the ultra modern malls the size of stadiums with ...

Before we make it to Kuala Lumpur, I must admit the city is still a relative unknown to me, an also-ran in a lineup of ...

I will have to interrupt the gorgeous sandy beaches and ultra modern roads of Malaysia for an update back in ...

We decide on a boat tour down a river cutting through Langkawi, supposedly virgin terrain, plenty of wildlife ...

The next day belongs to…the playground. In Malaysia, and perhaps in most of Asia, this rates as a pathetic playground ...

Earlier in this blog I mentioned India and its television advertisements begging people to come, right away ...

If what I said about airports rings true for the appearance of a city, the public transportation should be another ...