Tajikistan: Tough Hiking in the Poorest Ex-Soviet Republic
Tajikistan. Hiking in this country that’s nearly all mountains, from the capital Dushanbe to Artuch Mountaineering Camp in the Fan Mountains.
About John Henderson
Articles by John Henderson:
Sri Lanka’s Endangered Sea Turtles
Sri Lanka: The First Week of Turtle Season By John Henderson The southern coast of Sri Lanka bends gradually around the base of the island like the smooth bottom of an egg. It is lined with some of the loveliest, sugary-white sand beaches on the planet. It’s one of the few places where the word […]
Procida, the Perfect Romantic Getaway in the Bay of Naples
Procida, a tiny island in Italy made famous by a movie, is the ultimate weekend escape By John Henderson In “Il Postino,” the 1994 Oscar-nominated film about a postman falling in love on a small Italian island, Mario the mailman pesters famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda about metaphors. Mario wants the perfect analogy to express […]
Cycling in Tuscany, Sipping Chianti Along the Way
By John Henderson The air is crisp in Tuscany at 1,800 feet. The hills that make the Tuscan landscape look like a quilt of earth colors rejuvenates your senses in ways only a Jacuzzi can approach. The views. The tastes. The breezes. As I sat on my bike in the tiny hilltop village of San […]
Sicily at Sixty
Here’s how to feel 20 years younger when you turn a year older, even at 60: Go to a beautiful place like Sicily with a beautiful woman.
Italy: Celebrating Christmas with the Romans
An American Expat enjoys the season, far away from home By John Henderson It’s Christmas time in Rome where St. Peter’s Square fills on Christmas Eve and chestnuts really do roast on open fires. It’s where nativity scenes share space with priests and pilgrims, not sporting goods and big-screen TVs. Comparing Christmas in Rome to […]
Slovakia: Hiking the High Tatras
“Black Skyscrapers rising from a forest” By John Henderson You have a lot of time to think when you’re alone, staring down at cloud cover and up at impossibly steep black peaks rising from cobalt blue lakes below. You think about the environment. You think about the exhaustion. You think about the butterfly that followed […]
Italy: Savoring the Tastes of Rome’s Market
Rome’s Delicious Mercato Testaccio By John Henderson If you want off the beaten path in a city like Rome, where the paths have been beaten for two millenniums, follow your nose. Follow the smell of salmon caught that morning, of maroon prosciutto taunting you behind glass, of white, round bufala mozzarella floating in its own […]
Rome: How I Became a Legal Resident
Getting a Visa to Live in Italy Legally By John Henderson Do you remember that popular optical illusion drawing of dozens of staircases that appear to go up and down but, at closer look, they really don’t go anywhere? Regardless of how many steps you take, no matter what direction you’re going, they keep leading […]
Retiring in Rome, the Eternal City
An American’s tips on retiring in Rome By John Henderson I saw Salvatore again this morning. He runs the cash register in my neighborhood caffe. He hands me the receipt for my daily cappuccino along with his brief, sometimes caustic, report on A.S. Roma’s last soccer game. Later I saw Franca, the slight, elderly woman […]
Isla Holbox, Yucatan Peninsula Mexico
Isla Holbox, the Anti-Cancun of Mexico By John Henderson The natural spring pool felt like a cool velvety towel as I jumped in off a crude wooden walkway on one winter Mexican day. The water bubbled from the natural springs 20 feet below the surface as I saw a school of terrified tadpoles scurry in my […]
