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ANZAC Day
Today, the 25th of April, is ANZAC Day. ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps. ANZAC day is a public holiday celebrated by both Australia and New Zealand to commemorate the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Aust...
Winston Churchill in New York: Sir Winston Churchill Square, New York's Downing Street
For children growing up in postwar America, the real-life British action figure known as Winston Churchill looms large. We knew him on this side of the pond as a portly and clever world leader who smoked cigars and saved his country (that we got to k...
Singapore Like You've Never Seen Her Before
"... Where there is Raffles Place you see The Ocean, where there are Shopping Centers you see nothing but palm trees. The Travel Film Archive has a 11 minute documentary called "Singapore - Crossroads of the East" which gives us a tour of the British...
Mejorando Mi Quinta
One of the most distinctive sights in Lima are its ageing 50s and 60s era buildings. The majority of these in districts such as Jesús María have long since been converted into multi-family residences, while others were built specifically for this p...
Optical illusion?
My husband had this picture on his computer desktop. At first glance, I thought it was a Photoshopped rendering of Milan's canals (yes, Milan has canals) mashed up with some Swiss village. But it's actually a picture of Milan taken on an incredibly w...
Huaca Huallamarca
Part of the Lima PreColombina series read more...
The last stop - Nostalgia Street
Public transport in Lima used to be orderly, clean, efficient and safe. Bus routes ran across the city in an organised way, drivers and ticket sellers were gentlemanly and vehicles were uniform, functional and spacious. This all changed with the Pres...
The Light in Hopper: The Diner on Greenwich Avenue. Yes, That Diner
In the immediate weeks following Pearl Harbor, the attack that propelled the nation into World War II, Edward Hopper was busy painting a new canvas. He made several preparatory sketches for a scene at a diner. read more...
The Light in Hopper: The Years on Washington Square North
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) lived at 3 Washington Square North, in what is commonly called "The Row," in Greenwich Village from 1913 until the day he died in 1967. He was almost 85, and presumably, he saw many changes during the co...
Bones of a conqueror
The Spanish settlers in Spain, upon their deaths, often wanted to be buried beneath the churches they had built on what they considered foreign and certainly un-Christian land. Doing so they thought was the only way of ensuring themselves a place in ...
MY ICELAND: Drangey
Few places I have been to in Iceland have impressed me as much as the island of Drangey, which we visited this past summer. Drangey is the manifestation of several things quintessentially Icelandic: awe-inspiring nature, mysticism and a multitude of ...
Fun Facts About Australia – Animals and Insects
One of the things Australia is best known for is its variety of strange, interesting and sometimes scary animals and insects. Here are a few interesting facts about Australia’s wildlife: *There are 1500 species of Australian spiders. *There are ove...
A virtual tour of the captain’s quarter
I had a meeting in town today, and on the way back home I walked through the area known as skipstjórahverfið, or the ‘captain’s quarter’. About a century ago, sea captains made up Reykjavík’s elite - they were the people wi...
The end of an era
It happened all so quietly, sneaked in under the Christmas radar and all the talk over the last few months and years about the re-juvenisation of O’Connell Street: the closure of the Royal Dublin Hotel. read more...
Vlad Tepes alias Count Dracula
Dracula Legend Some say that Transylvania sits on one of earth's strongest magnetic fields and its people have extra-sensory perceptions. Vampires are believed to hang around crossroads on St. George's Day, April 23rd, and the eve of St. Andrew, Nove...
Amsterdam City Sprawl
Amsterdam is a city that embraces change. In recent years, the city itself has been the object undergoing the most change. A city-wide metro project has left the city's main arteries under construction for years longer than projected, and of course...
