Tag: history
2 Sep
“Think with your eyes, feel with your ears,” says best-selling author, Malcolm Gladwell. It’s all ears when you indulge...
24 Jan
When I was in my early 20’s, I shared a tented camp for many months in Kenya’s Maasai Mara with my first husband, a filmmaker. We...
15 Nov
Piazza del Duomo An hour and a half by road from Milan is the small, elegant and refined city of Parma. In this foodie age it is probably...
14 Jun
David Cobb Craig is a journalist, editor, photographer and former guide for the Central Park Conservancy. He is also a long time friend of...
25 Jun
The Maasai say: You know where you are coming from but not where you are going. Mysteries in the well of the past. The strivings and yearnings,...
26 Jan
I was wrong. Who knows where ones first impressions come from. Oriana Fallaci, a woman I admired hugely for her courage to speak her mind,...
7 Jun
When Rome was built in 750 BC, Aleppo was already 2500 years old. UNESCO has registered Aleppo as a human heritage site along with other...
5 Apr
The Danube runs through this architecturally stunning city, separating the 7 hills that make up Buda from the flat (formerly agricultural) plain...
27 Oct
The Zulu War of 1879 is famous throughout the English-speakingworld for the great battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift. The...
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