Posts Tagged with ‘Travel Reports’
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Pablo Neruda in Valparaiso
01 Apr 2019Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Altobasso lost his mother at age thirteen, and the support of his father even before…
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Patagonia — Not Just a Clothing Brand
25 Feb 2019Patagonia Before there was Chile, before there was Argentina, there was Patagonia. Before there was a Patagonia, when in 1520…
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Iceland: So Young, So Fair
23 Sep 2017The government of Iceland fell the week we were in the country. It wasn’t apparent in the shops, streets or…
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Touring Italy In Books
23 Sep 2016Learning a new language, past the age of ten at least, is something like doing a major, complicated leggo construction,…
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Walking the Sierras, One Millennium at a Time
17 Aug 2015As a kid, like many other kids, I was fascinated by time travel. And perplexed. If I could go back…
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Lakes Basin, Sierra Nevada, CA
12 Aug 2015Besides reading and pondering on the human history that got us here, I sometimes wander the really deep history —…
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Franz Kafka: Lost in Prague and finding “Lost in America”
20 Jun 2014The best way to get a city, for me, is to put away the maps and follow promising promenades and…
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Walking Vienna
12 Jun 2014Vienna, the Imperial heart of the long lived Hapsburg dynasty (1278 to 1918,) unbreakable bulwark against the Ottoman advance,…
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Reading Vienna
08 Jun 2014In the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I…
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Vienna’s Premier Museum, the Kunsthistorisches, One of the Wonders of the World
05 Jun 2014As to museums, I’d often rather be outside, in nature’s own “place of study.” But I go, slowly filling my…
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Coastal Croatia – War Wounds Healing, Sea, Salt Air and Sun
31 May 2014So now we’re in Croatia, a country I never thought I’d be in. Not that I thought “I will never go,”…
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Poking Around Prague
24 May 2014The weather continues inhospitable as we arrive in Prague, mid-May, after 10 hours on the night train from Amsterdam. Now…