The Corinth Canal, belongs to the Great Age of Civil Engineering of the late nineteenth century; although smaller in magnitude than its bigger cousins, the Panama and the Suez, it is no less of a miracle of engineering. And as the commemorative stone at today’s bridge entrance points out, the design brains behind the enterprise […]
The House Where Pope John Paul II lived
I expected the tour to Pope John Paul II’s – sorry Saint John Paul II’s – village of Wadowice to be composed of pious old ladies and arthritic old men. Instead, they are all energetic thirty-somethings, many of them singles who could be out on a bonding tour from their gum, Today’s Catholics are LOUD. […]
New Zealand Funny signs
We all love mistranslated menus and hilarious signs on holiday, don’t we? The main source seems to be SE Asia where funny Chinese signs have their own pages on Buzzfeed and get shared as much as cat pictures. But what about baffling signs from a small Antipodean English-speaking country? The oddity of signs and placards […]