I’ve suffered for my art. Now it’s your turn.
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…
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…
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…
“When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.” Including cruises. Chin up.
On January 31, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. PST, the United Kingdom made the stupidest "decision" in modern-day thinking. It was Brexit (British Exit) where by a paper-thin majority, Britain left the European Union, an idiotic move that still brings pain to the UK and to Europe. What were they thinking? Maybe nothing at…