photo: Rudy Balasko
This week, the eyes of the world, thanks to the U.S. Republican Party’s presidential nominating convention, will perhaps even more than any in living memory be upon...
photo: Rudy Balasko
Now, which do you suppose are Belgium’s first and second largest cities? If you said Brussels, then Antwerp, that's a respectable guess. But the answer is Antwerp, then Ghent,...
photo | Ángela Ojeda Heyper
Quite a few locals in Spain''s capital head for the hills and beaches in July and August, but far from everyone. And for remaining locals as well as...
photo: Itamar Grinberg/Israeli Ministry of Tourism
Israel is truly a land of exceptional sights – and sites – from top to bottom. But roughly two hours south of Jerusalem, one of...
photo | lazyllama
What’s my favourite part of Rio de Janeiro? Not at all easy to say, because there are so many cool parts of this city, appealing in their different ways....
photo: Joney
The word “park” for many many conjure up civilised, groomed lawns, flowerbeds, and patches of dappled woods. But in Africa, game parks are wild swaths of raw nature, preserved...
photo | Tramont_ana
Even beyond the San Fermín festivities (particularly known for their running of the bulls) which kick off today, Navarre's capital Pamplona naturally gets most of the attention when...
photo | Julio Fritz
Just as Europe designates its annual pair of "capitals of culture", since 2000 the countries of the Western Hemisphere have celebrated their own in a similar fashion. The first American...
photo: Joseph Sohm
In school, U.S. kids still learn the patriotic poem connected to the battle of Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts that begins, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of...
Nine countries. Two continents. A total of 34,412 kilometres (21,383 miles) flown. La Guitarra Vuela. Soñando a Paco de Lucía’ (The Flying Guitar: Dreaming of Paco Lucía) is the tale...