Travel
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✈︎ Iceland ✈︎ Ireland ✈︎ Northern Ireland ✈︎ England ✈︎ France ✈︎ Croatia ✈︎ Austria ✈︎ Serbia
A sculpture in memory of victims of the Holocaust and the Ustasha regime. “From this place, about 800 Zagreb Jews were deported to the Nazi camp Auschwitz in August 1942.” – Inscription on an adjacent plaque
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✈︎ Iceland ✈︎ Ireland ✈︎ Northern Ireland ✈︎ England ✈︎ France ✈︎ Croatia ✈︎ Austria ✈︎ Serbia
Whether traveling or at home – wherever and whatever home might be to an individual – attention to hidden details is bound to be rewarding. The main train station in the city of Zagreb, Croatia, will offer plenty of impressions to the naked eye. Many of those impressions will likely be uninspiring, some disturbing. Yet,…
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✈︎ Iceland ✈︎ Ireland ✈︎ Northern Ireland ✈︎ England ✈︎ France ✈︎ Croatia ✈︎ Austria ✈︎ Serbia
Kissing Fiaker / Vienna The Man-Horse relationship goes back many centuries in many parts of the world — for war, for farming, and also for controversial entertainment. Vienna is one of the global centers where tourism and horse carriages continue to be a beloved attraction, inspired by the 17th-century Paris where the Irish patron Saint…
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Whenever I see a knitter
My beloved and sweet grandmother (*1899) was a knitter. Whenever I visited her, she spent the day knitting, reading, looking after her plants, and taking a nap, or two. And, because she was lefty, as I am, she took some time to teach me how to knit. Sadly, I did not retain the knitting she…
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Confluence: Swans
The City of Lyon shows the logical and classical dedication to rivers known through the ages throughout the world. And one may walk right up to the point which is the actual confluence of the two rivers that flow through this city — the Rhône and the Saône Rivers. The Rhône rises in the Alps,…
