Walking Vienna
Vienna, the Imperial heart of the long lived Hapsburg dynasty (1278 to 1918,) unbreakable bulwark against the Ottoman advance, …
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Reading Vienna
In the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I …
Vienna’s Premier Museum, the Kunsthistorisches, One of the Wonders of the World
As to museums, I’d often rather be outside, in nature’s own “place of study.” But I go, slowly filling my …
Croatian Nights — New Fiction from Croatia
My literary companion during 5 days in Croatia has been Croatian Nights a joint effort of 19 stories by Croatian and British …
Poking Around Prague
The weather continues inhospitable as we arrive in Prague, mid-May, after 10 hours on the night train from Amsterdam. Now …
Reading Prague
Prague, as every traveler will tell you, is a wonderful town, full of surprises and visual delights. It is full of improbable …
Night train From Prague — a Book Left Behind
I bought Night train From Prague by Cheryl Harlick to read on my own night train to Prague, thinking it would be …
Jumping Puddles and Onrushing Bikes in Amsterdam
It’s said that we travel to open our eyes, stretch our minds. I wouldn’t have thought this to include adjusting …
Canal Reading — In Amsterdam
The rain is pelting down as as I take my first steps around Amsterdam, the Venice of the North as some …
A Jail Break Against the Draft
On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on …
H2 Worker – Legal Immigrants and Illegal Employers
Update below. As a one-time volunteer for the United Farm Workers (AFL-CIO) the human cost of industrialized field labor has …
Night Train to Lisbon — A Movie of Resistance and Memory
It’s always mildly astonishing to me how different people respond so differently to a movie or a novel. What one …