We recently found ourselves with a couple of weeks of vacation, and knowing that our free time had come when most of the rest of Ecuador was still at work before Holy Week, we decided...
Amid all the booking in previous months, Jean Mazzei and I came up with a handful of East Coast dates and the Great Idea Tour would go to Phoenixville, PA before Brooklyn. The town, we...
My latest article, published in “Postwatch” — the magazine for members of Aberdeen [Hong Kong] Marina Club, where I’ll also be speaking in May:
http://bit.ly/ap1Zs2
Filed under: Articles written by Dr Hilty [published]...
I was browsing the history of Esperanto and discovered Rose Island, a micronation in the Adriatic Sea that declared itself the Republic of Rose Island in 1968. (And whose official language was Esperanto.)
Apparently there have...
Who’s Back There? – Barbot, Nepal
Going to villages that are off the tourist trail in Nepal are the most rewarding to me. So when the principle of the school I was volunteer teaching at invited...
Another season another burst of Italianism in the San Francisco’s Bay Area. It must be the spring, or the fact that Italian-American are not longer ashamed of their ethnicity, after all Ethnic is...
Why? "Probably so we can think twice." Bill Watterson, cartoonist and creator of Calvin & Hobbes
I personally have so much fun with the "why" question! My automatic, subversive and intuitive response is always "why...
In the middle of the craziness of Thamel (the tourist district) I found this gem boutique hotel; a diamond in the ruff! What makes staying at the Ambassador Garden Home Hotel a unique experience is...
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