“My hovercraft is full of eels!” line from Monty Python
“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.” — Bill Murray
This is not your gran'pappy's Alabama. If you're from the USA, some of this may ring true to you. Or it may not. No matter the case, Alabama is one of those hidden gems. It's a state where deep historical roots, world-class innovation all meld together. The state served as…
How low can you go? Let's be frank: London is "the Dog's Bollocks" but it is also unfeasibly priced sometimes. You can, of course, find deals everywhere we have a few suggestions in this post, but here we focus on the phrase "how low can you go?" London's The Metro paper…
Nothing to do with The Bayou. Nope: no shrimps on the barbie or gators swimming around your ankles. This post is about as removed from that as you could imagine. Welcome to Bobcaygeon, Ontario, holds a special place in the Canadian consciousness—partly because of its natural beauty as the "Hub of the…
D.H. Lawrence: Described the Amalfi Coast (near Sorrento) as a place where “today’s gods are abandoned and a lost, Mediterranean, anterior self is again discovered”.
Woo woo! Ready for year-round fun? Of course you are. So sit down, pour yourself a small snifter and whet your whistle when you see this combination. Artouste, or Artouste-Fabrèges, is a winter sports resort in the French Pyrenees. It is located in the commune of Laruns in the department of…
“In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon.”
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” – (Commonly attributed to a theme in historical analysis.
“He who doesn’t love Naples, has yet to learn how to love life.” – A common Neapolitan sentiment.
How long will it take the calloused hearts of men before the scars of hatred and cruelty shall be removed? We read of killing one hundred thousand men in a day.
England is old. In continuous human settlement is ~13,000 years, but the unified Kingdom of England officially began around 927 AD with King Æthelstan, making it over 1,000 years old as a single state before uniting with Scotland in 1707 to form Great Britain. The land itself has been inhabited by modern humans for tens…
As the world marches ever forward toward oblivion, courtesy of the fat cats who sit in the halls of "power," let us not forget that people are dying out there, and some of them may be your children. Do you really want to subject them to yet another world war? That's easy for…
The Cotton Mappa Mundi, is one of the earliest surviving world maps known to have been made in England, dates to the tenth
