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Bali, where the Gods are Staring

26/08/2014 18:30

Skilfully Liah gathers some rice with a few small pieces of fruit and frangipani white petals with a hint of yellow in the centre and a pinch of salt and chilli. With the certainty that habitude provides deposits the jumble on a small domestic shrine, in front of an image of the goddess Dewi Sri as...

A Shard on the Clouds

14/08/2014 17:06

In September 2007, start the Southwark Towers wrecking works, an office complex twenty four stories high. It was paving the way, literally, to develop the project of the Genoese architect Renzo Piano, a sliver of glass that would tear the sky clouds above London. And that's what happened on...

Via Nova

05/08/2014 09:31

As Bob Dylan in the sixties, Caius Calpetano Rantio Quirinal Valerio Festo probably thought the times they are a-changin’ when he saw finished the new road he had inaugurated. It linked Bracara Augusta with Asturica Augusta, at the end of the Empire. Vespasian, the Emperor had ordered its...

Shetland, the Cats' Islands

22/07/2014 11:01

Abby’s fault. With her blue eyes and wide smile misleadingly Nordic covered with a country’s wool hat, as a modern Circe, tried to seduce the traveller and lure him to her island straight from the tourist office site. Lure him to her Shetland Islands, beyond Scotland’s bounds or where Britannia...

Memphis Graveyard

07/07/2014 10:30

Memphis, one of the greatest cities of the ancient world on the Nile shores, built in the western bank, which corresponds to the world of the dead, an outstanding necropolis. Its famous pyramids are the only of antiquity wonders still standing. The Greeks adapted the name of a mausoleum, that of...

Ellan Vannin

27/06/2014 12:20

The Isle of Man, Ellan Vannin in Gaelic, on a world map a small dot between Ireland and Great Britain, is basically known for a couple of subjects. First at all for being a tax haven. There are no taxes on capital gains and transfers or benefits. Although the OECD, the Organization for Economic...

Gateway to Heaven: Top 3 Airports in the UK

09/06/2014 11:23

The role of airports in travel goes beyond runways and the endless conveyor belts. According to Wendy Waters of All About Cities, “for a city to attract and retain corporations with national and global ties — as well as talented people to work for them — efficient, functional airports that are...

A June 6, seven o'clock in the morning

05/06/2014 16:46

On the screen, private Braeburn, dizzy, vomits on the barge wet floor. McCloskey mocks while Sergeant Randall puts them in place. Me, the private Bill Taylor, observe them indifferent, thirty seconds left to open the front door of the boat and land. We'll have to run to catch unscathed the Cliffs...

Where the Dragon Soars

29/05/2014 10:37

More than a millennium ago, a Vietnamese emperor, Lý Thái Tổ, built a new capital for his kingdom. In a poetic outburst he named it Thăng Long, meaning where the dragon soars. Name changed more times until Western colonialism mutated Đông Kinh in Tonkin. Another less poetic emperor, Minh Mang,...

The Whitechapel Murders

12/05/2014 10:59

Dear Boss, I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they won’t fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. Grand work the last job was. I gave the lady no time to squeal. How can they catch me now. I love my work and want to...

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