Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw, an Irish-British author, a Nobel Prize l...
If you are going through hell – keep going. Sir Winston Churchill, a British statesman....
God knows, I want to jump, like Liza, on one of my favourite authors… and if I were in Chita’s place, I’d love to be welcomed like that!...
It’s been nearly two years that I have had a soft spot for Paul Arden. An advertiser but also an amazingly clever man with a great sense of humour, he was able to convey his ideas on some very c...
I cannot imagine anyone who wouldn’t love Italy. If you don’t like its Etruscan, or Roman, or early medieval past, you may surely love the Italian Renaissance. Or you may love the Italian ...
Happy St Patrick’s Day 2011 While wishing a happy St Patrick’s Day to all my Irish friends and readers, I’d like to share with you a great photoreport from Sarah from The Daily Nibbl...
Those who know George Mikes’s How to Be an Alien will spot a paraphrase of one of the book’s chapters. If Naturalised draws on the experience of a new British citizen who was born and bred...
Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. George Mikes, a Hungarian-born British writer. PS – A research has shown several years ago that the English could now be c...
Israel (from DeoTravel) A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies ...
I met with my former co-student and colleague this Saturday; we sat in a cafe which is a part of a chain of Italian and Japanese eateries in Moscow. We sat just below the big plasma TV, and the Russia...