The Eclectic Wanderer

Not every country can be a winner in a journey around the world. Have you ever not liked a place from the moment you arrived? Such was the case for me with Malta. To be fair, Malta was disadvantaged from the start. Our trip there had been much longer than expected, and by the time…

The desk clerk at the Vilnius Hilton looped a paper tag through my suitcase handle and paused. “Aren’t you afraid you won’t come back?” she asked. “Of course not!” we replied – perhaps a little too quickly. “We’ll be back in two days!”