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Monday, September 1, 2025

About Me

Steve Bailey: This blog has changed since I began it in 2010. It started out as little more than random comments about places Jane and I had visited, such as the hamams in Instanbul. More recently I've been trying to capture the sense of places, such as Split, Croatia, or Hydra, Greece. And the more recent a posting, the more likely it is to have lots of photos, thanks to a camera upgrade just before our African trip in 2016. I'm a former newspaper editor who has worked on major newspapers from Florida to Chicago and Baltimore to Paris. I was at the New York Times until 2007, with my last years working on the Travel section. I traded Times Square for the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where I worked as a freelance writer and editor and until 2015 taught communications at Salisbury University. In 2017 I moved to San Diego, California, where I live as if I were a retiree. I like to travel, to share my experiences and to hear about others' trips. This blog is intended as a resource for people who are planning vacations or other travel.

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