Continue Reading Spellbound “Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.” This sentence by Philip…
Continue Reading Modes of Transportation I got to Europe, how else, by airplane. The worst ecological footprint imaginable. What I found in Holland, of course, were bikes. All…
Continue Reading Grafitti – the Old Fashioned Version Painting on public surfaces is nothing new – I don’t have a clue to when we can date back the earliest frescos,…
Continue Reading Urban Aesthetics (Ljublijana) You can find a lot of art, both curated and spontaneous, in the streets of the old city center of Ljublijana. (And…
Continue Reading Urban Aesthetics (Vienna) Vienna was recently ranked, for the umpteenth time, the most livable city in the world. One of the ranking factors concerns the…
Continue Reading And we resume Your Daily Picture is back, reasonably recovered from jet lag and filled to the brim with materials gleaned throughout my trip to…
Continue Reading Trieste (4) The Risiera de San Sabba was one of 4 Italian concentrations camps, the only one with its own crematorium. According to the Italian…
Continue Reading Trieste (3) Trieste has a long and checkered history, a unique blend of ethnicities, cultures, religions and political systems. For centuries it was part…
Continue Reading Trieste (2) I can never remember if it’s today or tomorrow that a young friend of mine celebrates his birthday. To err on the…
Continue Reading Trieste (1) Scores of people come to this ancient seaport town each year to pay homage to James Joyce, who wrote his Ulysses here….