REMEMBER THE WOODEN HORSE OF TROY? Ancient Troy, as the current Brad Pitt movie reminds us, was situated in modern Turkey, across from Gallipoli on the Dardanelles (those straits that help link the Aegean Sea with Black Sea). The Greek…
A NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR DOMINOES WAS ATTEMPTED LAST FRIDAY EVENING IN HOLLAND. Eighty-four specially-selected volunteers from fourteen European countries had been setting up set up 4,250,000 domino stones over the past two months with painstaking concentration in a…
AS THE PLANE DESCENDED TOWARDS MALAGA AIRPORT IN SOUTHERN SPAIN, I scanned the surrounding slopes in search of the orange-tiled roof and the white plaster walls of Villa Isabel. How many thousands had passed through this training centre and meeting…
(see part 1 - Aug 9/04) SO THE EU CONSTITUTION HAS NOW BEEN SIGNED, WITH GOD CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT FROM THE PREAMBLE. Does that mean those of us who are EU citizens should all vote 'no' when a referendum is held…
HOW DO YOU BEGIN TO MEND THE LIVES of those who have suffered the triple trauma of leaving one's home, dangerous travel, and hostile rejection in their hoped-for country of refuge? Athens, for example, is the 'off-ramp' for many travelling…
