Here are my top 5 things to do in Venice, Italy, if you are there for just a short time. Venice is an amazing place with so much to see and it was really hard to come up with a top 5. I was there for a few days before boarding a sailing ship headed […]

If you can only be in town for a few days, then these are my top 5 things to do in Milan.

A big part of my recent trip to Italy was visiting the fabric mill of Vitale Barberis Canonico. A large portion of the custom suits I have sold for the past 7+ years have this fabric as their backbone. I have to thank J. Hilburn, for setting this up with Marino (Head of Italy and […]

Seeing the Terracotta Army in person was pretty special and hard to describe in words. For those of you who don’t know the history behind them, I will give you a brief explanation. Qin Shi Huang became the King of Qin at the age of 13 and then, China’s first emperor, known as Emperor Qin, […]

I will be honest, outside of the Terracotta Warriors, I didn’t know anything about Xi’an. It is definitely a cool city with a lot of history and the smallest of the three cities we visited, only 13 million people. It is one of the oldest cities in China and the oldest of the “Four Great […]

Something I didn’t talk about in my first blog about China was the language barrier. I don’t speak Mandarin and, if you don’t either, than I strongly recommend a private guide. In each of the three cities we toured, we had a English and Mandarin speaking guide and it was invaluable. Getting around without one […]

I have always wanted to go to China since I was a little kid. Growing up, I studied several martial arts that started with Kung Fu and, of course, I was obsessed with Bruce Lee movies. I remember saying to my grandfather, who is part Chinese, that one day I would walk on The Great […]