Edgar Jiménez
One of the many attractive destinations in Colombia that has been attracting increasing attention among both holidaymakers and expatriates seeking a fantastic home is Medellín (sometimes dubbed Medallo)...
08/08/2019
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Few great world cities can be said to be as ardently and inextricably tied to music as Austria's capital. In this case, of course, classical, echoeing with the footsteps...
04/04/2019
Oguz Dikbakan
In the West these days, we rarely if ever spare a thought for North Africa's largest and second-most populous country, but as this blog has reported several times, Algeria is an...
09/07/2018
photos | Sarah Brown
Though most famous for Carnival, golden beaches, and world-famous landmarks, the real heart of Rio de Janeiro, for those in the know, lies in its downtown, most notably...
11/06/2018
Jordi Santacana Figuerola
Spain has had its share of sculptors among its so many distinguished artists over the centuries. But even the most famous, like Eduardo Chillida and Juli González, are pikers...
20/02/2018
Kalim Saliba
For those interested in USA history, "Beantown" is a bonanza, with its many sites and neighbourhoods rich in colonial, revolutionary, and republican history over its 400 years of...
16/05/2017
Literally, pantsula translates from Zulu as "to walk like a duck". It's an energetic, syncopated urban dance that originated in Johannesburg townships during a traumatic period of apartheid in the 1950s,...
07/03/2017
photo | aodaodaodaod
Glorious old Granada, Andalusia is on the small side as Spanish cities go (pop. 238,000), and its city coat of arms declares it to be "noble, loyal, renowned, great,...
20/09/2016
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 we talk about destinations and culture in Spain, art is of course an indelible part of that, and this country has been fortunate to have produced geniuses who've...
19/11/2014
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