James Jeffrey

There’s a fairytale quality that permeates this land

Belgium’s capital offers a stimulating and baffling mix of fast and slow

So unending is the expanse and relentlessness of Jaén’s olive groves, I might as well have been at sea

There is a haunting beauty to their desolate vistas, an intimidatingly brutal type of splendor

Even the graffiti can’t undo the light over Athens. It bathes the city in a serene glow

What happened to the all-embracing, welcoming spirit emanating from the Electric Forest?

Staten Island offers the spiritual antonym to elitist performances such as the Met Gala and the Oscars that peddle a distortion of American life

I wouldn’t envy anyone fighting in that terrain against a tenacious, vigorous people defending their beloved homeland

The Camino de Santiago is no normal pilgrimage

‘You can go to Hell, but I am going to Texas,’ said Davy Crockett. I think he had a point

We downed jugs of turbo, a popular Ethiopian concoction of white wine, beer and Sprite