Görlitz is the easternmost city in Germany, and in contrast to most other historical German cities, it wasn’t severely destroyed during World War II. After Reunification, Görlitz emerged from under communist East German rule well preserved, but notably grey and colourless. Today, the town’s rich European architectural heritage (late Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Historicist, Art Nouveau), …
El Duque de Cobos instructs his Equerry to write the Baroness von Stieglitz on the occasion of her “Onomástico”. Click here to read El Duque’s Letter of Congratulations to the Baroness. Some admirers of the Baroness may have chosen to overlook a previous story thinking it to be a tad mired in a mirky past. To …
e visit the Extermination Camps in Auschwitz and Birkenau today in an attempt to better understand the historical background and the Holocaust. I really didn’t look forward to going and confronting the realities of this terrible chapter of 20th century History, but I’m glad I did. We were in luck with our guide, a well-educated …
I am testing various means to view a Picasa Photo Album – particularly to understand how the ALBUM is viewed on an iPhone. GOOGLE+ PHOTO ALBUM Click to see the photo album of our visit to Warsaw, Poland TABLE STYLE from Picasa Warsaw – June 2014 EMBED SLIDE SHOW from Picasa
(But, not sure what Pope Francis would make of this opulence.) At the press of a button on my bedside table, curtains roll back to reveal the view from just one of three rooms of my 40th floor eyrie at The Upper House on Hong Kong Island. And no smog to spoil the view this …