The Prague connection
PRAGUE! ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CITIES... built on a bend in the river whose name I can never remember - the Vltava. The Charles Bridge lined by statues and artists, the cathedral and the castle on the hill, the Old…
Justice in St Petersburg?
WORD HAS JUST COME IN THAT THE YOUNG WOMAN WE HAVE REFERRED TO AS NATASHA IN PAST WW'S GOES ON TRIAL THIS FRIDAY. Al Akimoff, our director for Eastern Europe reports that the situation looks nasty, and calls for special…
A mighty fortress
WARTBURG CASTLE STANDS HIGH ON A ROCKY MOUNTAIN, close to the former Iron Curtain in Eastern Germany. Our bus slowly climbed its way up the tree-covered access road towards the collection of stone towers and half-timber buildings comprising the castle.…
The book that shaped Europe
WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION WE THREADED OUR WAY THROUGH THE STREETS AND CANALS OF AMSTERDAM towards the Biblical Museum. This would be our first of many museum visits during the two-week Share the Heritage tour. We had gathered in De Poort,…
The sun: a pale reflection…
IT'S THE SUMMER SOLSTICE IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, the winter solstice south of the equator. Let's pause to reflect on this amazing phenomenon we take so much for granted. Our sun is just a very small star, in a very…
