If you’re not much into gambling while in Las Vegas, then find a table, enjoy the view and people-watch. From prime locations just off the boulevard, grab a refreshing drink, some hot salsa and chips and enjoy the scene from Diablos Cantina 2-story Mexican restaurant located at the Monte Carlo Resort; down a cold brew at Nine Fine Irishmen, located at New York New York. These two joints will give you plenty of time to scrutinize the crowd below. Las Vegas’s central strip has Planet Hollywood, which offers 2 fantastic views of the Fountains of Bellagio and the City Center complex next to the MGM Mirage. While there, grab a fresh Pina Colada at Hawaiian Tropic Zone and people watch from the outdoor patio, you’ll be impressed with watching the servers as well.

If you’ve had enough people watching, then travel the world and enjoy the scrumptious French cuisine at Mon Ami Gabi inside Paris Las Vegas, or at Paris, go to Ah Sin, which serves unique Pacific Rim dishes as you sit at the foot of the Eiffel Tower . Across and down the street is Caesars Palace, which just opened its newest dining restaurant, Serendipity 3, offering award-winning cuisine and fantastic desserts. But, if you’re looking for a private dining experience with that special someone, you must try any of Wynn’s Las Vegas’s Bartolotta, SW Steakhouse and Okada, which all overlook a private lake and all feature award-winning cuisine.

Night time shines a whole new light on Las Vegas, even the hotel in Las Vegas you’re staying at will transform into a hot-spot, especially if you’re staying at Caesars Palace, Wynn’s or Treasure Island. In Vegas, it just doesn’t matter if you don’t gamble, because people watching, outdoor dining and the astounding nightlife will guarantee that you have the best time ever and remember ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’.

Corsica has a lot more in common with its neighboring Sardinia than it does with the country it’s connected to, France. No doubt that there are plenty of evidences of French culture here, and visitors will remember the food for its lovely flavors, and its butter, which has some French contributions. But in terms of places that are misunderstood, it has a similar history to Sardinia, and certainly a contemporary frustration that at times turns into nationalist sentiments toward preserving the culture here.

Although it does have a language that’s difficult to navigate, and there are many cultural forms here that are very peculiar to the place, it’s also a fantastic place to visit. Any place where the cuisine has equal shares of French and Italian and Spanish influences is worth visiting, and the lovely coastline is something that speaks to everyone. Corsica hotels are experiments in how lovely life can be, and there is no final answer, in any language.

While hospitality and flavor can appeal to just about anyone, with or without common sense, there are elements of Corsica that are very much part of the culture here, and are enormously fascinating. One image that will be seen everywhere, although not necessarily noticed, is the granitula . This is the spiral, and it’s a symbol that has peculiarly heavy weight here, but actually connects with other very old traditions.

The spiral-granitula is seen in many of the saint festivals, where barefoot penitents will walk in a procession, and at times dance in a clockwise spiral, and at times counter-clockwise. There are lots of interpretations for this, and what it actually signifies.

Like in most places that use the spiral, echoing the movement of water through a hole, or the design on a snail’s back, it refers to time and space. Moving forward and backward, something coming out of nothing, and returning to nothing again, in an endless dance. It marks the mystery of existence, and also speaks to a notion that life is always in flux, and always in motion.

Coming to Amsterdam can sometimes feel like becoming part of a much larger inheritance, one that has been paved long before the first tourists set foot here. The legacies run along multiple lines of flight, and they intersect at corners in every neighborhood. One of the great things about Amsterdam is that it is a city that holds the potential for many great moments, and for anyone that’s not used to European cities in general, this can be a very big welcome. It’s also a kind of relief, to be able to speak with strangers on a whole range of topics, and the depth of conversation can range from friendly and kind, to the illuminating and essential.

Moments are here to be opened, like gifts, like presents that make the here and now a very palpable thing. It is also a very elusive thing, and the big questions that get asked in the coffee houses are nothing new. This can be very good news, because there are moments when pondering becomes too weighty, and on a vacation, it might lead one to wonder if anyone has ever thought this deeply. The answer, in Amsterdam , is a big yes, and artists and philosophers have claimed this as their stomping ground then and now.

The place is already paved, then, with a history of thought, and like the streets, one can walk the same places that the thinkers like Spinoza walked. And there are certainly moments when the mind and body problem can seem to be wholly resolved. Whether it’s in a conversation with other travelers, a moment on a corner chatting with a local, or even contemplating all that is inside an Amsterdam hotel , these things do come to light, waiting for them to be revolved around inside of another mind. It’s a fantastic city for chasing mental knots around, and trying to figure out ways of deciding that none of these really matter, because this a holiday, and there are moments waiting around the corner.