“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is Monaco.” (Matsuo Basho)
Let's hope not! To those of you who have visited Pompei in the past, (as we have done several times ourselves) have you ever been rushed, or crushed by the crowds and, in the end, felt disappointed in the experience? Pompeii is one one of those places where you want to . .…
. . . . by train. No, this is not one of those "shock horror!" Instagram posts. We're too old for that. It's also not yet another expose of sleazy clubs and venues that are scattered around the Motherland. Leave that stuff to the Generation Alpha publishers. There are no selfies in…
We continue in our series of posts about the Evan’s Bears event and fundraiser. Evan Burgess passed away on October 17, 2018. Born with a congenital heart defect, doctors didn’t expect him to live past the age of two. With the able assistance of Royal Brompton in the UK and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver,…
In Buddhism, Kailash represents the father of the world and lake Mansarovar symbolizes the mother.
While there are some notable skyscrapers in European cities like London, Frankfurt, and Paris, Europe generally has a much lower concentration of skyscrapers compared to North America or Asia. Why is that? Part of it is purely historical, as you might guess. Europe has a long history of urban development, with many cities…
We continue in our series of posts about the Evan’s Bears event and fundraiser. Evan Burgess passed away on October 17, 2018. Born with a congenital heart defect, doctors didn’t expect him to live past the age of two. With the able assistance of Royal Brompton in the UK and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver,…
We continue in our series of posts about the Evan’s Bears event and fundraiser. Evan Burgess passed away on October 17, 2018. Born with a congenital heart defect, doctors didn’t expect him to live past the age of two. With the able assistance of Royal Brompton in the UK and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver,…
We continue in our series of posts about the Evan’s Bears event and fundraiser. Evan Burgess passed away on October 17, 2018. Born with a congenital heart defect, doctors didn’t expect him to live past the age of two. With the able assistance of Royal Brompton in the UK and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver,…
We continue in our series of posts about the Evan’s Bears event and fundraiser. Evan Burgess passed away on October 17, 2018. Born with a congenital heart defect, doctors didn’t expect him to live past the age of two. With the able assistance of Royal Brompton in the UK and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver,…
Every time that we visit the big Italian cities, we often walk away scratching our heads. As we understand it, the The Room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion, just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, but all of the paintings appear to be somewhere else, with Milan suspiciously appearing…
We continue in our series of posts about the Evan’s Bears event and fundraiser. Evan Burgess passed away on October 17, 2018. Born with a congenital heart defect, doctors didn’t expect him to live past the age of two. With the able assistance of Royal Brompton in the UK and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver,…