Where time stands still… Lisbon is a bustling city, with great restaurants, modern nightlife and beautiful old quarters. People in Portugal’s interior provinces, however, live just as they did a hundred years ago. The pictures above are from the old village [...]
Remember…. My family from my fathers side is of Jewish descent. 53 of them did not come back from the concentration camps in the second world war. In 2002 a group of survivors of the holocaust, family members and others participated in a memorial trip [...]
Double Dutch…. Holland may be small (if you drive fast for two hours in a straight line, you are in a different country!), but with nearly 17 million people, it can get quite crowded. Amsterdam is a truly international, but still village-like city. make sure [...]
Magical island in the clouds Saba is magical! A fairy-tale community of white houses + red roofs built on a steep volcano. There’s only one road, which is referred to as ‘the road that could not be built’, because Dutch engineers said the [...]
Paradise! I have had the privilege to experience the beautiful islands of the BVI on a sailboat. Turquoise waters, white beaches and turtles, it doesn’t get any better than this! Virgin Gorda: Richard Branson owns a private island in this [...]
A humbling hurricane experience… In 1996 I had briefly visited the Bahamas by boat and on jet ski with some friends from Miami. We enjoyed the sun, sea and fun. In 2008, however, I was about to have a completely different experience… In the [...]
In 2007 I visited Botswana. Read about my adventures in Dutch.
In 2011 I visited Curaçao. Read about my adventures in Dutch.
I visited Curaçao. Read about my adventures in Dutch.
Twittering twits? When the Dutch Queen made some denigrating comments about the internet and social media in her Christmas speech, it elicited a barrage of protest on the internet. Are the technological developments and social media the cause of individualization as Beatrix stated, or do they generate more [...]
