K. Lau
 Coimbra University
The upper town, or Cidade Alta, of Coimbra is built around a hill looking over the river Mondego. The University, which takes up about half of the hill, was originally a palace. Afonso Henriques moved the capital to Coimbra from Guimaraes in the mid 12th century. The University was established by papal decree [...]

K. Lau
Webitor’s Note: This is a continuation of K. Lau’s Medieval Portugal series.
Porto has been occupied for at least 3000 years. The Romans built a harbour here at Portus, while the settlement on the south bank, where all the Port houses are, was called Cale. These two towns gave their names to the county [...]

Winnie Nip

It was cloudy but dry, and I was well rested - the perfect day for mountain biking.
My family and I arrived at Vancouver International Airport the day before.  There, we rented a Hyundai from Hertz and drove up the beautiful mountains of Whistler.  Due to road widening projects in preparation for the 2010 Winter [...]

Veronica Jiminez
Istanbul, Turkey is a country of many contrasts. The city, located on both sides of the Bosporus, separating Europe and Asia, is connected by two bridges.
The heritage of Istanbul is very diverse. Turkey, founded by Constantine the Great is 324 AD (although the site of ancient Byzantium as far back as 650BC), with Istanbul [...]

Cynthia Cheng
New York is full of expensive restaurants, but there are only a handful that’s high on everyone’s list.   Jean-Georges is one of them.  However, Jean-Georges has one thing that most other places do not have. It has an amazing Prix-Fixe lunch that is lighter on the wallet than their “regular” dinner menu. For $28 US, one [...]

Robert Haynes-Peterson
There are times I wake up feeling if my skin is oozing wine, or whichever spirit I inhaled at the previous night’s soiree. Now luxe spas in vine regions around the world are actually offering wine and vine-based treatments, providing a healthier definition of “booze soaked.” As more and more destinations-from Walla Walla, Washington [...]

Niya Bajaj
The second incredible stop on our journey is London, England. Like all maximum cities, it shares certain characteristics with Mumbai, but on the whole is decidedly more organized, less frenetic, and a great deal more “proper”. If you are the sort who would be lost without your daytimer and a clearly laid out schedule, [...]

Niya Bajaj
Webitor’s Note: This is the third part of a series on travel.  The first two parts, also on Mumbai, were originally published in the February and March issues of Prospere Magazine.  You can read Part I here and Part II here.
The best and worst thing about maximum Mumbai is the fact that there is [...]

Niya Bajaj 
Webitor’s Note: This is a continuation of Niya Bajaj’s article on Mumbai published last month. 
Like any Maximum city, Mumbai is laden to the hilt with things to do, places to see and food to devour. With options ranging from the super cheap to the super chic you are bound to find something that [...]