European travel for North Americans is often an endless chain of intense quaint. Adorable little wedding cake houses in Belgium that are still lived in. People who are made heads of state because a direct ancestor had another, slightly less direct ancestor beheaded. British police helmets and French police sirens. And the gypsies. Particularly the […]
A Moveable East
The eighties were such a different time. The Soviet Union was a thing. The Republicans were the party of fiscal restraint. Concorde was losing money at almost three times the speed of sound and America had reuseable spaceships. The North American economy was booming and all Europeans dreamed of was a “green card” or, failing […]
4 Hours Later
The indie zombie flick, 48 Hours Later, managed to film downtown London, including Westminster Bridge, in a manner that made it look completely deserted. How did they do it? Simple, they waited until London was completely deserted. Even London, home to eight million people and, at any given time, another million tourists, looks empty at […]
Night Train
When one is young is when travel presents its finest, freshest and fullest opportunities to live and learn, to expand and be expansive, to party, get drunk and, with a little finesse, have sex with strangers you’ll never see again. You’ve probably got your own ideas about how to achieve the above lofty goals but […]