You Started It! — Fawlty Towers and Wars Declared by US Presidents
You started it!
Series 1 Episode 6 – The Germans, Fawlty Towers
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When Sybil is out of action in hospital, Basil is left to cope with his shabby hotel (in Torquay) in her absence. What could go wrong when …
Kenya Safari Holidays April 2008
Kenya – A Recap of our 6 days in the Great Wild Bush
We arrived in Kenya at Nairobi International airport on our holidays in May and, somewhat predictably, spent the first 30 minutes in a highly disorganized line up …
Comments and Thoughts after Visit to Dubai 2008
Barcelona – Some sites, restaurants & factoids
Happy No Smoking & New Year
Glad to usher in a new year and, with it, the beginning of smoke-free hotels, bars and restaurants in Paris. But, as this BBC article explains, Paris is not the only place to take on new year resolutions. Eight German …
Serendipity – Random Meeting in Hanoi
As I prepare a post for my impressions of Hanoi, Vietnam, I would like to isolate a great moment of serendipity–aka “oh boy, is this world small!”–that occurred on my first day of my trip.
On any business trip, I …
Egypt – Holiday on the Nile
My wife and I just spent a most memorable week in Egypt, on the famed Nile. Thanks to my mother who hoofed it over from the States to watch over our children, we were afforded a romantic getaway. The visit, …
Art & Archeology Museum of Gueret
Psychiatry is politics… and dollars and cents
I had never been fully exposed to the downside of psychiatry until I visited this week the exposition “Pyschiatrie: la vérité sur ses abus” in Paris at the Hotel Castiglione, 40 rue deFaubourg St Honoré. Sponsored by Citizens’ …