Two Blogs ago I promised to write about the beaches of Albania, so we flew to Tirana (Albania’s capital), spent a couple of days there, admired the numerous freshly created...
“Rupert’s Land” was the name given to the Hudson Bay watershed by King Charles II of Great Britain and Ireland in 1670. At the time, he had no idea that this encompassed...
Lake Balaton is a freshwater lake in western Hungary. It’s a major holiday destination with beaches, volcanic hills, resort towns and high-rise hotels along its 197 km...
It was always fashionable, nay necessary, to find a new place every year where to flee from the brutal cold of a Canadian winter. Getting to Florida was easy, so it was first...
Montreal is a cruel place in winter: cold, and snowy, with people in thick coats and heavy boots on streets that are hard to navigate. I was getting older and less and...
When you examine a twenty-five cent Canadian coin closely (we call them “quarters”) you’ll find the image of an animal on it that looks like a cow with horns on its...
I was forewarned before I emigrated from Europe to Canada that winter was to be very seriously taken in Montreal so I purchased a pair of galoshes (in North America they were...
Yes, Amerika with a “k”. That’s how we spelled it in Budapest after World War II, idolizing the United States, looking up to it as the shining hope for democracy world-wide....
My Hungarian friends are big-time foodies. They think, talk, write and worry about food all the time. Of late, they have begun campaigning for me to visit Slovenia because – in...
The Danube is the second-longest river in Europe, (2,850 km) after the Volga in Russia. It flows through Central and Southeastern Europe, from the Black Forest south into the...
