Here in Brazil it’s said that the most heated arguments take place about football around a table in a pub - and as a Brazilian, I have to say...
30/05/2014
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Month: May 2014
Both Spain and Mexico are known for their rich ceramics tradition stretching back centuries (that of the latter dating back to the Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs, and other Amerindian civilisations, and...
29/05/2014
In a past post we covered how airline pilots keep from getting lost, with the assistance of both visual and technological means. And a key part of these operations -...
28/05/2014
"It´s all about choices," say the English these days. And that's pretty much how many of us visitors feel when faced with a map of London and the daunting task of...
27/05/2014
They call it the island of eternal spring. It's Tenerife, one of the all-time top choices of warmth-hungry Europeans. And besides being an island full of history, culture, and...
26/05/2014
If you've been following our series on aerophobia, you've read my recent posts about a key feeder into such anxieties, namely, automatic negative thinking, and most recently an example of...
22/05/2014
As a lifelong lover of Spain, few cities are as deeply intertwined in my image of this singular country as this singular city at the foot of Andalusia’s Sierra...
21/05/2014
There are of course all different kinds of models of aircraft, each with its pros and cons. When it comes to identifying them on sight, one of the features...
20/05/2014
Rome may be Italy's government and monumental capital, but Milan of course is the commercial capital, where much of Italy's business and finance is conducted. One of its most...
19/05/2014
Judaism has been making more news than usual in Spain this spring. Just this past month the Spanish government caught international attention by formally rectifying a longstanding historic injustice:...
16/05/2014
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