The Spanish air traffic controllers’ union (USCA) has called for four days of strikes in June to protest punishment of 61 controllers for a 2010 strike. The strikes will take place on June 8, 10, 12 and 14; each will last from 10 am to noon and…
This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them.
I’m sure there must be some place without birds, but I haven’t been there. And everywhere I have been, the birds have caught my attention….
Beautiful letters and beautiful things…This is another shoebox selection, focusing on well-made signs and well-wrought details that just don’t really fit somewhere else. You know
The pictures in this gallery are mainly architectural details—rooflines, entrances, windows—noticed in years of walking in cities and having my eye caught by a strong line, an unexpected contrast, an extended shape…I don’t even always know what catches me, and, as here, it’s often not the most significant building.
The British pound and U.S. dollar are both much stronger this year in exchange rates with the Euro, but that’s likely to have a much bigger effect on British travelers than Americans. True, more Americans are likely to travel to Europe this year.
Fighting a local anti-nudity ordinance in a town north of Barcelona, the Catalan Naturist Club, having lost its appeals all the way to Spain’s highest court, is now appealing to the European Human Rights Court at Strasbourg. The Spanish high…
Barcelona, which continues to be one of the hottest European cities for visitors, has locals who sometimes feel a little crowded out…especially at their favorite food market, La Bouqueria. The result: during the Friday and Saturday shopping rush…
Barcelona, which continues to be one of the hottest European cities for visitors, has locals who sometimes feel a little crowded out…especially at their favorite
Barcelona, which continues to be one of the hottest European cities for visitors, has locals who sometimes feel a little crowded out…especially at their favorite
The Spanish air traffic controllers’ union (USCA) has called for four days of strikes in June to protest punishment of 61 controllers for a 2010 strike. The strikes will take place on June 8, 10, 12 and 14; each will last from 10 am to noon and…
This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them.
I’m sure there must be some place without birds, but I haven’t been there. And everywhere I have been, the birds have caught my attention….
Beautiful letters and beautiful things…This is another shoebox selection, focusing on well-made signs and well-wrought details that just don’t really
The pictures in this gallery are mainly architectural details—rooflines, entrances, windows—noticed in years of walking in cities and having my eye caught by a strong line, an unexpected contrast, an extended shape…I don’t even always know what catches me, and, as here, it’s often not the most significant building.
The British pound and U.S. dollar are both much stronger this year in exchange rates with the Euro, but that’s likely to have a much bigger effect on British travelers than Americans. True, more Americans are likely to travel to Europe this year.
Fighting a local anti-nudity ordinance in a town north of Barcelona, the Catalan Naturist Club, having lost its appeals all the way to Spain’s highest court, is now appealing to the European Human Rights Court at Strasbourg. The Spanish high…
Barcelona, which continues to be one of the hottest European cities for visitors, has locals who sometimes feel a little crowded out…especially at their favorite food market, La Bouqueria. The result: during the Friday and Saturday shopping rush…
Barcelona, which continues to be one of the hottest European cities for visitors, has locals who sometimes feel a little
Barcelona, which continues to be one of the hottest European cities for visitors, has locals who sometimes feel a little
