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Shetland, the Cats' Islands

22/07/2014 11:01
Abby’s fault. With her blue eyes and wide smile misleadingly Nordic covered with a country’s wool hat, as a modern Circe, tried to seduce the traveller and lure him to her island straight from the tourist office site. Lure him to her Shetland Islands, beyond Scotland’s bounds or where Britannia...

Memphis Graveyard

07/07/2014 10:30
Memphis, one of the greatest cities of the ancient world on the Nile shores, built in the western bank, which corresponds to the world of the dead, an outstanding necropolis. Its famous pyramids are the only of antiquity wonders still standing. The Greeks adapted the name of a mausoleum, that of...

Ellan Vannin

27/06/2014 12:20
The Isle of Man, Ellan Vannin in Gaelic, on a world map a small dot between Ireland and Great Britain, is basically known for a couple of subjects. First at all for being a tax haven. There are no taxes on capital gains and transfers or benefits. Although the OECD, the Organization for Economic...

Gateway to Heaven: Top 3 Airports in the UK

09/06/2014 11:23
The role of airports in travel goes beyond runways and the endless conveyor belts. According to Wendy Waters of All About Cities, “for a city to attract and retain corporations with national and global ties — as well as talented people to work for them — efficient, functional airports that are...

A June 6, seven o'clock in the morning

05/06/2014 16:46
On the screen, private Braeburn, dizzy, vomits on the barge wet floor. McCloskey mocks while Sergeant Randall puts them in place. Me, the private Bill Taylor, observe them indifferent, thirty seconds left to open the front door of the boat and land. We'll have to run to catch unscathed the Cliffs...

Where the Dragon Soars

29/05/2014 10:37
More than a millennium ago, a Vietnamese emperor, Lý Thái Tổ, built a new capital for his kingdom. In a poetic outburst he named it Thăng Long, meaning where the dragon soars. Name changed more times until Western colonialism mutated Đông Kinh in Tonkin. Another less poetic emperor, Minh Mang,...

The Whitechapel Murders

12/05/2014 10:59
Dear Boss, I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they won’t fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. Grand work the last job was. I gave the lady no time to squeal. How can they catch me now. I love my work and want to...

Washington (Irving)

29/04/2014 10:10
Starting from Granada’s Plaza Nueva and ascending the sloppy Gomérez Street, once crossed Granates door, going even a little further, it’s Generalife Boulevard. It’s mandatory to stop a few seconds just to catch breath again. Looking up from the ground, on the right, across the street, stands...

Malaga

15/04/2014 10:19
To Rafa and Paco Malaga is sweet as its own wines, tasty as the fried fish, which they say is seasoned differently from the rest of Andalusia, finest, as the exquisite eaten raw clams. Malaga is the essence of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean Andalusia. Essences that in the old town, between...

Hawaiian Shelters

31/03/2014 11:30
Traditional Hawaiian cosmogony implied a close relationship between divine, human and nature matters. This meant strict codes of conduct, the kapu, taboo, governing uses and behaviour between different social classes. Breaking kapu could expose the transgressor to the most severe punishments. Taboo...
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