“Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?” “How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?” — Charles de Gaulle
There has been an up-tick in missing and damaged luggage lately, and although there is very little you can do to make sure an airline doesn’t lose or mis-route your luggage, there is something you can do beforehand and then once it occurs. Travel Insurance covers lost or damaged luggage and since airlines are less […]
Anse Source d’Argent, La Digue – Seychelles Seychelles is a remote, isolated, and tropical island paradise in the middle of the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of Africa. This windswept island offers tourists sunny weather, brilliantly turquoise waters, fine sandy beaches, millions of unique seabirds, and rare plants such as the endemic […]
My first glimpse of Rovinj was of a large, whitewashed church close to the old town; a weathered nun, oblivious to the staring tourists, swept the church courtyard in a quick 1-2-3 motion. In the pastel chaos that is Rovinj, this black and white picture of serenity was a lasting one.
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, on the coast of southwestern France, is a village steeped in legend, history, and tradition that lives on today. Gypsies (Gitanes) from all over Europe gather here every spring on a pilgrimage – the Pélerinage des Gitanes – to honor their saint, Sarah
Eastern State Penitentiary The penitentiary’s exterior resembles a castle, and is therefore intimidating. The solitary confinement of each cell gives you a glimpse of skylight. In prior times, prisoners were hurled in one huge room. Hence, the prison serves as an example in social reform. The penitentiary was operational for 142 years. The cell that […]
The Greek island of Corfu is off of the west shore of Greece in the Ionian Sea and affords the dramatic seaside cliffs, white sand beaches, and pinnacles of rock that jut out of the water so steeply that nothing but birds dare ascend them. But that’s ok, they look better from a beach chair […]
Tiny Oulu, in northern Finland, might never have come to your attention, unless you happen to be an avid hiker and kayaker heading north on the west Finland coast. But a dedicated group of artists and pranksters have ensured that Oulu will make a disproportionate impact on the music and cultural world. First and foremost would […]
Hunedoara, Romania, is the location of an amazingly well-preserved Gothic castle that looks as if it dropped out of some fairytale. With a drawbridge, a moat, pointy towers, colonnades and gargoyles, all it lacks is a resident dragon. It seems fitting that it is located in the evocative region of Romania known as Transylvania. Hunedoara […]
Bright Atlanta Atlanta is considered the de-facto capital of the South, but if you go there you won’t find the antebellum fairy-tale lifestyle and sceneries of the South that has often been portrayed by television and the movies. While Atlanta has certainly retained its southern charms in various ways, such as the friendliness and helpfulness […]
