Like most middle-class parents living in Budapest, the second largest city in the late Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, they realized that, for their children to have a better than...
Photo: Governors Harbour Grand Cayman (in the 80’s) People used to refer to the Cayman Island as ‘the islands that time forgot’. No wonder. Their isolation was such...
Schlag in German is short for SCHLAGSAHNE, in English: whipped cream. I love it! Especially when it is served with a slice of ‘Sachertorte’, my favorite dessert. On the...
Panem Nostrum (Give us this day our daily bread…) Susan and I live in a comfortable, well-run condominium apartment building that is cared for by a superbly efficient...
Montreal now has over 1,000 kilometers of cycling paths in the greater urban area (some winding through beautiful venues) and has become one of the world’s most bike-crazed big...
World War Two is over and Budapest is slowly emerging from its Twilight Zone, but marauding Red Army soldiers still roam the streets and, at times unexpectedly, collect fit...
When I crawled out of bed this morning the outside thermometer indicated FORTY degrees BELOW zero Celsius and the temperature inside my cottage was also low – a threatening...
It was one of those depressing Montreal November mornings … damp, chilly, unfriendly. My windows were fogged over and dripping with condensation and ‘Je ne me sentais pas...
“The secret to success is hospitality,” said the tall, attractive woman wearing a black felt hat with an enormously large, undulating rim. “What a pity everyone texts and...
For some mysterious reason I have this fantasy that, expecting a presidential victory by the Donald, Vladimir Putin has arranged to have sway over Trump through some of his...
