Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Between a 150m-deep rocky gorge to Spain’s oldest bullfighting ring, Ronda is a place not just to see architecture influenced by the Romans, Arabs and the Catholic Monarchs but also dreams and dramas.  Through the large glass paneled windows blurred...
Seville is dazzling and bewitching. It's a city of story and souls - from its flamencos, flourishing architecture and muti-layered faiths. Seville blooms at any given season, come night or day. He could have been a converso. But he is...
There is nowhere in the world quite like Istanbul - spread across two continents, a city exuding with culture and contrast and always on the move.  Everyday mostly at six, old wooden carts pass and move along the narrow cobblestoned...
  Either he picked up the wrong colors or has probably run out of paint; Paul Cézanne, the most rebellious of the 19th-century French artists, painted his work of art “Le Lac d’Annecy” – unromantically.  It was July 1896 at Talloires...
  There was nothing but the gentle lapping, splashing and sedating sound of the waves, and the occasional cry of a passing gaff-rigged motorboat or the crisp April zephyr blowing from the shore of Punta Engaño on the Island of...
When William Graves opened the door of his father’s old casa in the undulating hillside of Deià on the island of Majorca, his eyes twinkled. Elena, whom he had been married to for 48 years, was with him. He was...
With only a short boat ride from Sabah's capital, Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo, the island of Gaya is a healing refuge for men and creatures.   From the deck of a speedboat scuttling along at 25 knots, I saw Kota...
In Koh Samui, a simple retreat becomes an endearing masterclass in fortitude and grit.  The sight of a solid, 20-inch bluish-green body adorned with protruding red spots greeted us. In perfect stillness, I saw him glued to the wall like...

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