The chances are that if I offered you a fill in the blank starting with Kentucky ____, the top three in some order would be derby, fried chicken, and bourbon. Well, I’ve never been to the Kentucky Derby (and didn’t visit Churchill Downs while in Louisville) and I’ve had good fried chicken all over the…
Editor’s note: I truly love when our amazing writer Sam Spector does a series on a country I haven’t visited yet, and really don’t know much about. I hadn’t even known Lublin existed before reading this piece, and now it is on my future Poland itinerary. For more of Sam’s writing, click here to visit…
Mexico is awesome. It is, in fact, one of my favorite countries in the world. I have spent time in several parts of the country, from Mexico City to the beach resorts of Baja, Nayarit, and the Riviera Maya, to the border cities of Tijuana and Juarez. Each time I visit I leave more impressed…
I’ve been lucky to have spent a reasonable amount of time in Mexico, up to and including my most recent three week trip. I’ve been even luckier that this time has included several regions of the country. (I believe I’ve been to seven or eight of Mexico’s states.) And yet I feel I’ve barely scratched…
Two days. Well, two nights. Two totally different experiences. One culturally iconic, one a hybrid adaptation from Mexico’s northern neighbor (the US). Both a bit overwhelming. As I spoke about earlier, Cabo San Lucas is more a tourist hub than a “real” city. (Click here to read about Cabo.) But it does take people to…
Regular readers of The Royal Tour will be surprised that I stayed in a beach resort to begin with. After all, I tend to prefer cultural immersion to relaxation by a rather substantial margin. But here we are. I recently was included on a trip with A’s godparents to Mexico, one that included staying at…
Editor’s note: I have never been to Poland. But as a Jew, I feel a connection to a place where so many of my people lived - and died. As an aside, if after reading this powerful piece by Sam Spector you want to immerse even more in the events of the Warsaw Ghetto, Mila…
There is no question that Cabo San Lucas, the southernmost point on the Baja California peninsula, is beautiful. The turquoise of the water here could be mistaken for the Caribbean, though it comes with reasonable surf at this point, where the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez meet. Mountains surround the town, with low…
It seems that most tourists come to Mexico City for its museums and historical sites. This makes sense, as Mexico City has more museums than any city in the world outside of London, and remnants of both Aztec (click here to read about that) and earlier civilizations (click here to read about Teotihuacan). But Mexican…
Welcome to the first installment of the day to day itineraries of my 2026 Europe trip! For this chapter, we are based in Genoa, but exploring the northwest of Italy. Why Genoa? Why not? It’s a large city (Italy’s sixth largest), but not so big as to have too much to try to see in…