As a fact-filled follow up to my World Cup post, I present some statistics about viewership that I think back my point of how far soccer has to go before it is widely accepted in the US. Despite Shoul’s insistence that a big crowd in a small Mexican restaurant in […]
HOW TO TRAVEL WITHOUT KILLING EACHOTHER
It’s good to be back in the humid pea soup of a Western Mass. July. Of course, I step back in and all hits the fan, but I am confident we can fix the problems and get it all cooled off again. It’s an exciting time, we’re hiring at the […]
Outside of the Hilton on each corner of the street, yell0w-jacket cops were stationed last night, as if anticipating a surge in riots because of the World Cup. But the meek, penalty-filled game provided few thrills, it was a shoving match with just one goal. Sigh. Now I am convinced […]
Right near where this gigantic ferris wheel is now, a bomb was planted by IRA terrorists in 1996. The bomb was 3000 pounds, and the destruction included an entire Marks and Spencer department store plus city blocks far from the epicenter. It was a horrible amount of destruction that surprisingly […]
Reflections while rolling through the English countryside toward Newscastle en route to Manchester England.
On every press trip, you settle into the ‘press trip groove,’ getting used to all of this packing, moving, and note-taking, and finding out enough about your fellow journos so you know where you want to sit at dinner and a little bit about each person who is traveling with […]
Everywhere in England are signs directing World Cup viewers to come and “join us for the game!” It’s like the Superbowl, but in this case, it’s way, way more important–as if the big game didn’t come every January, but instead just every four years. There is definitely some handwringing over […]
York is a city with a violent past. We joined a popular pastime tonight….strolling the city following an actor who recounts tales of savagry by citizens of York to other citizens of York. He wears black, jacket pants, shoes and gloves. And he tells tales with…just..the right…timing and punch, scary […]
The city of York is a magnet for both British tourists and travelers from around the world. It’s just about as pretty as everyone said it was; encircled by a Roman-built wall and dominated by the massive York Minster, an oversized cathedral. Guide Mark Graham told us that archeologists have […]
