The country of Georgia is blessed with a cool masculine name, yet it shares it with a far-away state in America. This coincidence kick-starts an inevitable conversation as soon as one mentions: “I’m going to Georgia”, which is always followed…
“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.” Michel de Montaigne Shortly before visiting Ukraine I told a gathering of friends and relatives in LA about our plans to tour Chernobyl, the site of a major nuclear accident…
Paris, as always, is beautiful, wonderful, elegant, interesting, delicious… and expensive! A taxi ride from CDG airport to the city center will set you back $80, a four-star hotel room – around $400 per night, a simple lunch for two…
No one wants to get sick, especially away from home, but it does happen! Our 26 year old son (the one who lives in Rome) has gotten a bad cold and was having hard time breathing. Today he went to…