The imposing facade of the church of St Pierre de Chaillot in Paris is a puzzle from the start: It is massive, its geometry is unlike almost any other church, and it appears almost as if it could be a ...
Kuma and Bohdana, Siberian tigers who have lived in a zoo at Hoenderdaell in the Netherlands, under supervision by the World Wildlife Fund, which is managing the re-introduction project. The Siberian, ...
The city of Tomar, Portugal, was founded in 1160 by a member of the Knights Templar. It has beautiful city hall on its Praça da República. Jonathan L - Follow my blog at: ...
Our travels through Morocco would not have been complete without a visit to the Sahara Desert. The Sahara is a large desert that spans a number of north African nations, involving only a relatively ...
I'm an admirer of Alfred Hitchcock's film-making skills. While in Sonoma County, my wife and I made a point of checking out some of the locations Hitchcock used when crafting his classic 1963 film, ...
Eurostar, which now includes its former subsidiary Thalys, operates routes connecting Amsterdam to London and Paris as well as Brussels and Rotterdam. Since November, train speed has been cut by from ...