The Toys

TRAVELS PAGE

Things get...interesting...when you travel the back roads of this world in the search for innovative and creative toys and gifts. Click on the links below to travel with us.

WHY IS THIS MAN SMILING?

Ah Belarus. It's a chuckle a minute with its lunatic factory directors, toxic mineral water, and instinctive aversion to even the most basic capitalistic practices like, if I pay you for a product you will ship it right, comrade? Promise? Promise?

YOU KNOW HOW YOU TRAVEL SOMEWHERE, AND YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BEEN THERE BEFORE?

Turkey's not that place. The French have a word: 'bouleverser,' which roughly means to amaze, stun, totally turn upside-down. That's Turkey, truly a life-changing destination.

HERE ARE TIGERS AND WISE MEN AND FAMINES.

Not my words but Suketu Mehta's, the author of "Maximum City." India was an assault on the senses. I couldn't wait to leave. I can't wait to go back. A fascinating, fascinating place.