Volume #1, Issue #10 - October 2007

by Shannon AntonyI awoke to the sounds of gently crashing waves lapping onto the pebbled beach below. When I looked out the window, I saw cliffs that reached the skies, and the salty sea breeze of the warm Mediterranean caressed my face like an Italian lover. … [Read more...] about La Ninfa Hotel: A Lover’s Hideaway on the Amalfi Coast

by Debi Lander  Legend asserts that Friedrich, the last Knight of Hirschhorn, died from a curse. … [Read more...] about Be a Knight for a Night in Hirschhorn Castle, Germany

by Bonnie CatonA few months into my English teaching job in Southern France, by the wonderful predictability of the French system, public services went on strike.  The students chained up the university in protest of a new law which meant that I couldn't work and was still being paid. "I love my job!" I yelled when I next saw Cyril, my French boyfriend.  We … [Read more...] about Trapped in La Toilette in France

by Bonnie CatonWith a whine and a lurch, the truck stopped on the edge of a market in Chiang Mai and we all jumped off into the muddy street.  Morning sunlight was coaxing ribbons of steam out of the damp pavement where Thais shuffled about with bundles of fruit, fish still flopping, rice noodles, shrimp paste and the like, wrapped up in faded sheets or balanced on their … [Read more...] about The Flaming Wok – Taking a Break from the Beach and Learning to Cook Thai