Appenzell Innerrhoden (also known in English as Appenzell Inner Rhodes) is a half canton in Switzerland. I won’t go into history here, but Switzerland consists of 26 cantons of which six are half cantons (they are divided mostly for historical and religious reasons). Half cantons have their own state...

Combining travel with art is always high on my list. Especially when I have the opportunity to visit an artist’s home country or even the city he was born in.

In Switzerland, I made it a point to explore the Paul Klee Center in Bern. The building itself is very modern and its silver, rolling shape...

Agadir, located in the south of Morocco, did not strike me as a model out of A Thousand and One Nights. On the contrary, the modernity of the city was rather a disappointment. After the disembarkment from our ship, the Marco Polo, we were shuttled along a three-mile stretch of dusty roadwork before we...