Today, the Leap Year Day February 29, is unusual enough that it merits an unusual tale, the 514th anniversary of which happens to fall tomorrow. Often lost in the...
29/02/2016
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Month: February 2016
Tokyo may be many things, but boring is not one of them. If I weren't born and raised in the Mediterranean, Japan's capital is the city I would most...
26/02/2016
“I walk on, once again, down these corridors, through these halls, these galleries, in this structure of another century, this enormous, luxurious, baroque hotel…”
That line, from French director Alain...
25/02/2016
For literature fans, the City of Light is especially a beacon - and not just for French authors, but also those writing in English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and various other...
24/02/2016
Consider the humble onion. Ubiquitous worldwide, it's practically impossible to imagine many world cuisines without it. And beyond lending flavour to so many countless dishes, onions have also been...
23/02/2016
I've always felt that a country's greatness is not defined merely by its history but many other factors - and high on that list, its culinary traditions. And perhaps...
22/02/2016
Old fashioned as it is, there’s something about lace – the classic weblike fabric of delicate, intricate patterns of leaves, flowers, and geometric motifs, most often of cotton or...
19/02/2016
When it comes to the tourism and much else in the Big Apple, fuhgeddaboutit – Manhattan’s the proverbial “800-pound gorilla”, an attention hog with all the flashiest sights, dining,...
18/02/2016
As rich as the recorded history of Spain is, it all adds up to a mere microsecond in terms of human presence on the peninsula that eventually became known...
16/02/2016
Latvia has quite the roller-coaster history, controlled by powers including Lithuania, Sweden, and Russia, until the birth of a new republic in 1918. Then of course it fell back under Soviet...
15/02/2016
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