During a month-long stay in Paris I worked on my art appreciation by adding to my list of ‘famous paintings I have seen.’ I hit the mother lode at Musée d’Orsay. I don’t know much about art – almost nothing
It’s really best not to mess with the fixed itinerary; especially when you are as ‘directionally challenged’ as I am. I learned that lesson while trying to ‘tweak’ the instructions I’d received to complete the Tour Du Mont Blanc, one
Let us all hope that the gods of tennis see to it that Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka never meet in a Wimbledon final, or any other final for that matter.* It would pose a serious occupational health and safety
The first and most important rule when touring the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon, is never, ever touch the grass. The world’s home of lawn tennis takes the cultivation and protection of its famous grass courts very
Back in Cold War days I read too many spy stories and watched too many Bond films that made want to go to Moscow. I didn’t want to go to the Bolshoi or gasp at Faberge eggs in a museum