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. […]
My grand Bucharest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel of the film may not itself exist – its exteriors were filmed in Schloss Heinewalde in Saxony and the interiors belonged to the Warenhaus Görlitz on the Czech-German border (after extensive restoration by Wes Anderson himself), but there are many that do. I have stayed in several grand European […]
Images of the Okavango Delta
I don’t think I’ve been to a wilderness in Africa comparable to the Okavango Delta. This is a place where humans are so rare, the animals don’t know how to handle them. Jeeps are open bare not next to leopards, but, more importantly, next to baboons. Try that in South Africa where even the bins are […]