Wim Wenders and Walter Benjamin

Castro Marim

Gibraltar Is an Odd Place

Pena National Palace


Luxembourg and Its Castles



Koningsdag in Amsterdam

Sporting the Dutch and Canadian flags on Koningsdag

I can’t be sure, but I doubt any country celebrates it’s monarchy as enthusiastically as the Dutch. I hadn’t planned on it, but my brief stopover in Amsterdam, Netherlands coincided with the national holiday of Koningsdag, or King’s Day, preceded by Koninginnenacht, Queen’s Night. Coming directly from another monarchical system, I reflected on the difference between the…


Straddling the border

Ypres and the Flanders Fields