As part of my normal travel segment, I spoke about Colorado on The Couch. The Couch is a weekly entertainment and variety show on Australia’s Foxtel network. I have presenting travel on the show for a number of years, so I decided to talk about Denver, Colorado. I visited Denver as part of my rail…
Chicago in tune celebrates the musical history of Chicago. As the home of Chicago Blues, where the careers of artists like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy and others were nurtured at Chess Studios, Chicago has a great musical history. Chicago is also the home of House music. House is a genre of…
The Kalahari Desert revealed itself to me last time I visited South Africa. My visit there was the most wonderful experience. I truly like remote places, so staying in the !Xaus Lodge in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the northwest corner of South Africa was truly memorable. To get there entailed a South African Airways…
Discussing Idaho the Gem State. Idaho is a state in the United States which boasts high snow-capped mountains, with heights of 3000 – 3800m, plus white water rivers (one running through the deepest river canyon in the U.S.), dense forests, high desert, and plenty of wilderness. Most of the land north of Boise is National…
In this podcast, Africa expert Herbie Rosenberg talks Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a fascinating country in the Horn of Africa and the second-most populous nation on the African continent. Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa and the second-oldest official Christian nation in the world after Armenia. It remains the only African country which has never been colonized…