Snorkeling at Playa de los Alemanes, which you’ll walk past on your way to Las Grietas, can be a mixed bag, but if you are keen to try, then aim for the mangroves on your right to see sharks at high tide, or swim right out to the furthest rocks to find sea snakes at low tide...
Stay along the waterfront at one of Singapore’s riverside Quays, from Boat Quay to Clarke Quay and Robertson Quay, there is something different to discover at every one. The Singapore River snakes through the city, beginning at the luxurious Marina Bay and along past the three Quays, where...
Unlike me, they know what I’m missing, and it hurts them to realize I’ll never enjoy what is so freely available to them. Loving me as they do, they can’t wrap their minds around my ability to hold that once-in-a-lifetime sunset loosely, as a cherished gift to which I have ...
If you want to chill out and hit the beaches together and soak up some warming Mediterranean sun you’ll be delighted to know that there are several soft sand beaches with clear waters that are suitable for swimming really close to the village. The beaches are ideal for sitting sid...
Forgive me for the historic analogy, but the situation has a peculiar feel about it, similar to Gen. Patton’s vague suspicions that the German Wermacht was “up to something” just prior to launching the 1944 Battle of the Bulge”. A peculiar quiet has settled-in among the GOP Conservati...
If you want to treat yourself just once, which I highly recommend, ask the hotel to make a reservation for you at “Ristorante Tullio” (http://www.tullioristorante.it/) This is the restaurant that is known for their pasta with white truffles. It’s not cheap, but worth every savory ...
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense o
Fuck them for never once appealing to my compassion or my empathy. Fuck their wilful ignorance. Fuck them for not knowing, not caring to know, what life is like for the millions of people unable to adequately heat their homes or feed their kids. Fuck their snakes’ eyes, and their ...
Nearly a thousand years ago, a historian wrote that the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's palace were still standing, but men were afraid to go near them because they were full of scorpions and snakes. That is the sort of ruin that greatness often comes to in our own day. Nineveh is gone. Its...
You spotted snakes with double tongue,Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595–6) act 2, sc. 2, l. 9 (Oxford Standard Authors ed.) Weaving spiders come not here;Hence you long-legged spinners, hence! A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595–6) act 2, sc. 2, ...