Europe has its fair share of those little tiddler states – you know the ones, territories like San Marino, Monaco and Liechtenstein which, if you cut a decent pace, you can walk across in a day. Vatican City is the tiniest of the bunch. You can stride from one end of this theocratic state to » Read more

The cult of Che Guevara gets a boost this week as special events across Europe commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the revolutionary’s untimely death in Bolivia on October 9, 1967. In Derry in Ireland, a week of celebrations will include the unveiling on Saturday of a new mural of Che – complementing the long standing » Read more

Photo by Mike Kirwan Recently, while staying in the beautiful Ardèche region of southeastern France, we were visited by a rather friendly and energetic canine named Plume (“Feather” in French.) Plume was nice enough to lead us on an exhausting hike through the swath of mountains she calls home. Soft spoken and with a perma-smile, » Read more

Londoners are abuzz over two departures—one political; the other final. 1. On June 27 Tony Blair will stand down as Prime Minister. While it’s not yet official that Gordon Brown will be elected by the Labour Party as the new PM, it’s widely expected that Brown will follow Blair at No. 10 Downing Street. You » Read more

Anschluß in 1938, she and her mother quickly left Austria. They left behind a brother who perished at Auschwitz. After the war she quickly made her name in the visual arts world in her adopted city of London. It was during this time that von Motesiczky also met writer and Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, » Read more

photograph by Bernadett Szabó Dr. Maria Schmidt, the Director of the House of Terror, is one charismatic lady. Hers is a tough position. The House of Terror details in length Hungary’s painful modern history of social control through haunting, interactive exhibits. The museum’s basement showcases the restored prison cells and torture rooms that once held » Read more