After a couple of days in noisy Kathmandu, it’s exciting to get out to the mountains, whether you go in a rickety bus for the eight-hour-long journey along bumpy roads, or fly in an eight-seater plane and wonder where you are going to land (until a landing strip suddenly appears on the side of a…
Luckily ladies, Vancouver is a foot-friendly city, offering a plethora of footpaths and plenty of lush green park areas to work off your expanding middle-belly. Or, if you’re so inclined: rent a bike and peddle around the Stanley Park Seawall and watch the floater planes glide in through the harbor. It was on one of…
by Kirstine Fratz Whoever said that the Germans don’t know how to party should be in Germany now. We are hosting the soccer world championship at the moment and the world is our guest. Here in Hamburg one of the biggest adventures is to go to the main station. People from everywhere, wrapped in their…
by Suzanne Dunning In a past life my soul must have been broken into many different pieces and scattered throughout the world. Somehow my intuition always seems to know exactly where to find them— in a pint of Guinness on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, on a beach at the base of Mt. Etna in…
But the life of a news Diva isn’t all glam. It is rather more akin to that of the persevering fictional newswoman Mary Richards (AKA Mary Tyler Moore)—a Diva in her own right– who struck out independently and paid her dues. In real life, Moore received several Emmy’s for her role. Many of the brilliant…
by Sarah Naimark Throughout 2006, Salzburg plays host to a festival celebrating the birth of its most famous citizen,— with the exception the Von Trapp clan, of course—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This marathon fete includes lengthy concerts, walking tours and masses designed pay homage to the genius composer who was born and trained in the small…
by Judi Basolo Is it possible to celebrate Thanksgiving in Italy? It is if you’re visiting American friends residing in Naples. There was no way I would miss this cool invitation to toast the Pilgrims with a worthy Chianti in the land that gave us pizza and a view of Capri. “Thanksgiving Wherever” sounded like…