I have been recently looking at my pictures to go with my articles on Bolivia on the Round the World Flights site. I am getting increasingly fond of the ones I took of the Potosí silver mine in the Cerro Rico, the Silver Mountain. A Potosi mine tour is part of the traveller must-dos in [...]
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French Opening Hours
There always comes a time in a traveller’s French itinerary, when you arrive hungry at a restaurant at 2pm in the afternoon only to hear “Fermé monsieur”. This is a shock to Anglo-Saxons who live in a world where customer is king – only to realize that there is an alternative Universe with a Gallic [...]
READ MORE »Greek Phrases in English: Zolotas’ speech
As a tribute to Greece’s Olympic legacy, here’s a toast to another: the Greek language which has given so many words and phrases to English and other languages. This is a speech by Xenophon Zolotas (1904-2004), an old Greek academic and politician who was a member of the IMF in its early stages. He gave [...]
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