summer picnic; a green flower-bestrewn meadow on the floor of a wide glacial valley; sheer grey curtains of Alpine rock forming a dramatic backdrop. These scenes in the Lufthansa inflight magazine on my way to Europe truly capture my attention. The article also covers stories of the Catholic Church’s historical post-Reformation Meeting of the Council …
ooking back on the seventeen days spent in East European countries,I have an almost dizzying sense of so many experiences. Some uplifting and exciting; others more of a depressing nature. Up until twenty five years ago, these people were being oppressed under the evil yoke of Russia’s Communism; and before that the tyranny of the …
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 …