I even checked with a college classmate who was in the Filipino Army about the safety here. He said good to come, so I came. I have passed several highway billboards displaying the photographs of 15-20 wanted terrorists. One giant poster read, “Wanted, Dead or Alive.” It felt like...
The tour of the Terracotta Army was wonderful and Coco’s knowledge really shone through making the tour very educational. Lunch was included in the tour and it was reasonable. Our day was shortened by the fact there was only two of us and we were back in the city by 3:30pm. I ...
and has 130 hectares of grounds. Curiously enough for a country with so many mountain ranges, one of the first marked hiking trails in the country was in Fontainebleau, planned by a Napoleonic army veteran, Claude-François Denecourt, in 1842...
In army terms, this means that I married my husband after he was already assigned a station. Or in other words, he’s been living in Italy for a year or more before I will be arriving. Why does this matter? Well, it means I had to do all the packing, planning, and… read more...
Alexandre Karsenty. we wrote regularly correcting each other's foreign language mistakes, until the war came. I landed in oran with the US Army intelligence in November 1942 and met him via the Gendarmerie next day. I am taking his letter to Nice today, 19 May, 1999, to show it to him...
Steve Bannon Has Called His “Army” to Do Battle—No Matter Who Wins in November Bannon, a self-declared general of global populists, wants to break the world order. And he’s tapped into something much bigger than Trumpism. By James Pogue Style Prabal Gurung Reveals the Cover to His Li...
statues and glittering chandeliers reflecting from mirrored walls. An army of waiting staff pulls off a correctly polite performance with theatrical classic tableside service that avoids any hint of stuffiness. Auguste Escoffier would find no fault with the whole show, although the odd Gallic eyebrow...
Toledo is known for sword-making and marzipan. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to the second-largest cathedral in Spain, a fortress that is now an army museum, the El Greco museum (highly recommend!), and the Singoga del Transito and the Sephardic Museum in the Jewish Quarter. ...
• The National Army Museum in Chelsea is joining with the Royal Air Force Museum, the National Museum of the Royal Navy and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to mark the 75th anniversary of VJ (Victory over Japan) Day, this Saturday, 15th August, with a series of free events includi...