A World of Sounds

“A World Of Sounds” is the title of a sidebar article that appears in this month’s Travel + Leisure magazine’s online feature about the Top 25 Travel Websites. The sidebar article features ten audio recordings from places around the world, including my Competing Chinese Operas, that has before been listed on the Quiet American. I’m [...]

Edo Panorama

Several blogs have been linking to this remarkable image over the last few days and I see no reason to hold back. If you click through to the large panorama at Wikipedia, you’ll see one of the earliest existing photos of Edo, which was rename a few years later to Tokyo. This panorama is from [...]

The Ghosts of a Soldier

Over at the BlogBrothers, Bob Brady just posted a very touching remembrance of his father’s time in the Second World War. I have similar memories of my grandfather, who had been a soldier with the German army during the same war and who could never talk about his experience in Yugoslavia, even thirty years later. [...]