Happy St Patrick’s Day 2011 While wishing a happy St Patrick’s Day to all my Irish friends and readers, I’d like to share with you a great photoreport from Sarah from The Daily Nibbl...
Those who know George Mikes’s How to Be an Alien will spot a paraphrase of one of the book’s chapters. If Naturalised draws on the experience of a new British citizen who was born and bred...
Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. George Mikes, a Hungarian-born British writer. PS – A research has shown several years ago that the English could now be c...
Israel (from DeoTravel) A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies ...
I met with my former co-student and colleague this Saturday; we sat in a cafe which is a part of a chain of Italian and Japanese eateries in Moscow. We sat just below the big plasma TV, and the Russia...
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Sir John Lubbock, a British statesman....
The story that was recently covered by Le Figaro, has started in Moscow in around 2007 when Valery Alekseev decided to break out from his comfort zones, using the “Extreme Rhetoric” method...
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prévert, a French poet and writer....
Your response to the Valentine’s Day article featuring Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 22 in different languages prompted me to research the subject better… and, thankfully, I didn’t ...
I don’t subscribe to patriarchy, and I don’t think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it’s a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things. To...