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Segovia in Your Hand

Five years in the making, and after at least six months’ meticulous planning, this was not an auspicious start. Within twenty minutes of claiming our luggage off the futuristically-plastic baggage...

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Al-Mansha

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” – Don Quixote de La Mancha I have been told that the Inuit have more than 30 words for snow and a similar number of descriptors for the myriad tones of white, blue...

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La Granja

It must go down among the biggest porkies a man ever told a woman – right after Christopher Columbus telling his mother he wouldn’t be long; he and a few friends were just taking their boats out for a...

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Holy Toledo: Still a City of Three Religions

“The beauty of Jerusalem in its landscape can be compared with that of Toledo.” – Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana Perched above its bend in the Tagus, with sheer drops on three sides to eddying...

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Pick a Peck of Pickled… Eggplant

Most of us would agree that the things we have made ourselves tend to be the things that we are most proud of. For example, in spite of the fact – or perhaps because of it – that their flaws are plain...

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Choir of the F—ing Year

Friends of this occasional blog may recall that I am of somewhat idiosyncratic tastes, so learning that the origins of this post lie in a youth choir’s a-cappella rendition of Astor Piazzolla’s...

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This is What You’re Hungary for After a Night on the (Gou)’Lash

It’s sorta soupy when made traditionally. “Maybe later we get togezza and drink som schnapps, ja?” wasn’t exactly the invitation I most felt like accepting that morning. A few moments later, I pushed...

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Farewell, Coconut King

Among numismatists this tiny cluster of islands, quite literally specks in the vast azure of the Pacific, has an outsize reputation, for it is among the smallest nations to produce its own postage...

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Il Inferno & L’Agania in Arezzo

“To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.” – Petrarch By mid-morning, the air was vibrating almost audibly, the cicadas had exhausted themselves and gone silent, and the leaves of the...

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To the Great Salt Lake

Flying north from Pheonix to Salt Lake City, I found myself in an aisle seat over the wing, limiting my view to a craned-neck peer between my seat-mates tablets at what would have been my first real...

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