Pablo Neruda in Valparaiso
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Altobasso lost his mother at age thirteen, and the support of his father even before …
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Patagonia — Not Just a Clothing Brand
Patagonia Before there was Chile, before there was Argentina, there was Patagonia. Before there was a Patagonia, when in 1520 …
Iceland: So Young, So Fair
The government of Iceland fell the week we were in the country. It wasn’t apparent in the shops, streets or …
Touring Italy In Books
Learning a new language, past the age of ten at least, is something like doing a major, complicated leggo construction, …
Walking the Sierras, One Millennium at a Time
As a kid, like many other kids, I was fascinated by time travel. And perplexed. If I could go back …
Lakes Basin, Sierra Nevada, CA
Besides reading and pondering on the human history that got us here, I sometimes wander the really deep history — …
Franz Kafka: Lost in Prague and finding “Lost in America”
The best way to get a city, for me, is to put away the maps and follow promising promenades and …
Walking Vienna
Vienna, the Imperial heart of the long lived Hapsburg dynasty (1278 to 1918,) unbreakable bulwark against the Ottoman advance, …
Reading Vienna
In the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I …
Vienna’s Premier Museum, the Kunsthistorisches, One of the Wonders of the World
As to museums, I’d often rather be outside, in nature’s own “place of study.” But I go, slowly filling my …
Coastal Croatia – War Wounds Healing, Sea, Salt Air and Sun
So now we’re in Croatia, a country I never thought I’d be in. Not that I thought “I will never go,” …
Poking Around Prague
The weather continues inhospitable as we arrive in Prague, mid-May, after 10 hours on the night train from Amsterdam. Now …