It’s a very short ride – and often longer wait – to take the cable car from Europe Square to Narikala Fortress, the highest point overlooking Old Tbilisi. The ride offers views onto the city…
Within 10 days of arrival, we felt we had landed – moving into a delightful apartment in the Vake district of Tbilisi after screening a half-dozen more. To us, it feels like a section of…
Entrance, Teatro São Luiz The theatre is not dead - at least not the Teatro São Luiz. Built for royalty to enjoy, it endured through the end of the monarchy and still welcomed the best…
Peace, liberty, the future…celebrators and demonstrators - directly acting on their right to express their views - repeated these themes during Portugal's country-wide celebration of its liberation from the dictatorship of Salazar's fascist regime. On…
This spring, we had the pleasure of sharing time with brothers, nieces, long-time friends, children, and grandchildren in the two locations where our families reside: Dallas and New York. That would have been plenty to…
In brief: On a short but busy return visit to Vienna, we found a city even more beautiful and interesting than ever. It was a quick trip to Vienna to visit with my son to…
We traveled by bus to the north of Portugal at the edge of the border with Spain, a hilly region called Minho. Minho is well known for its special “green” wine, the Vinho Verde, as…
It’s no wonder that those who want a balance between city and country life find Viana do Castelo so welcoming in northern Portugal. It’s a town of 85000 people at the heart of the Minho…
Allis Ubbo, Olissipo, Olisipona, Al-Usbuma, Lixboa, Lisboa…each of these names for Lisbon represents a different period of occupation: Phoenicians, Romans, early Christians, Moors, later Christians, Pombaline. Entering NARC and millennia past And each period can…
“Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen,” sang Hans Christian Andersen about the 19th century town in the old film. And he didn’t even see the modern Danish design and the sleek metro, as we did - returning to…