Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is essentially composed of two parts: Buda, the area to the west of the River Danube, and Pest, the part to the east...

Politically, Malta is in the European Union. Geographically, it is south of Sicily and east of Tunisia. It offers a terrific cocktail of leisure and c...

Menorca in part defines itself by what it isn’t. It isn’t Mallorca, which is the largest of Spain’s Balearic islands. Menorca is ...

On April 15, 2019, the great and revered cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris suffered devastating damage in a fire which engulfed much of the building. T...

You will probably know that Cyprus is a member of the European Union. But not all of it if you are of a Turkish persuasion. In that case, approximatel...

My last foreign blog was about Sicily. So is this one, but it’s one with a difference. It involves the late Sicilian author, Andrea Camilleri, a...

Sicily is separated from mainland Italy by a narrow stretch of water called the Straits of Messina. Plans are intermittently advanced about spanning t...

I was in Paris last week. France is in some turmoil at present. President Macron was so enraged by the poor performance of his own party, and the bett...

Late last September, I flew to Florence. My final destination was Rome but I’d left my plans rather late and by far the cheapest way to make my ...