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On our last night in Cyprus, we went to the center of Limossos to a tavern on a sidesteet, during tonight’s carnival. That is the time when people dress up in costumes and party later than usual, in honor of the festival preceeding Easter. We squeezed into a corner table […]
Blogging every day is what I shoot for on my journeys, but it isn’t as easy as it sounds. We stayed at a five-star hotel with the swankiest ocean view rooms and marble everything, but the only link to my beloved ‘Net was one slow dial up computer with a […]
The Cyprus story is certainly more than the Green line and the north. There is plenty of beauty here on the Southern shores, where the cliffs show the glint off the Mediterranean. We started the day visiting the Temple of Apollo, on a windy bluff off the highway. This country […]
Here is the UN line where as of 2004, Cypriots can travel to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. One thing most people never do is stay over, since they don’t want to give money to the Turks who have settled in their former land. In the newspaper here, there […]
We’ve been in Cyprus for one day and have talked a lot about the big question many of us brought with us: What is up with the separation of the country? Our guide had firm opinions, as did most of the other Cypriots. She said that when she was asked […]
Tonight as I flew to London, I had plenty of time to read the Weekend Wall Street Journal. Among the notable stories was a profile of a rarity: A muslim who has spoken out, loudly, against the twisted views that Islamofacists are putting out. Yenny Wahid is a prominent Muslim […]
Since losing two DVDs owned by Blockbuster, I haven’t been able to rent my usual share of movies, even though they continue to bill me each month. One of the movies I would have rented was offered on Virgin Atlantic’s amazing inflight movie system, where a veritable blockbusterish bevy of […]
Today was another whirlwind of a day, we began at 9 am as a snowstorm blew about, meeting with the new cafe employees. GoNOMAD CAFE, the new internet cafe in town, will officially open on March 7. We gathered our future baristas together to discuss what we expect and how […]
Jason Lee Miller writes in Web Pro News about how popular cell phones are for Porn“The young executive sits with his back against the terminal wall and flips open his mobile phone. Using Google’s Mobile Search, he begins sifting through an array of tawdry “religious experiences” and nobody’s the wiser. […]
From today’s Village Voice sad news about a really cool idea. “Minutes into last month’s Critical Mass bike ride in Manhattan, two cops on scooter patrol collided as they moved to head off the cyclists. One officer reportedly lost control while trying to grab a biker and slammed into the […]
“It all began on a Thursday. I was at my computer idly scrolling through House & Home, that most invidious section of the New York Times, and there it was: a splashy article about New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean, and the house she and her husband recently built in […]