Category Archives: Travel
Sweet Lemon Grove, Sicily
La Casa di Melo, where we stayed for two nights, was one of several highlights of our Sicilian holiday, along with our visits to Mount Etna, and The Godfather excursions to medieval mountain villages. It is a beautifully renovated family-owned farm house which year round welcomes guests as a bio-hotel, run with great charm by its current owners, a youthful married couple called Lorenzo and Chiara. The hotel retains a distinctive traditional air, with antique furniture from Chiara’s original family home, dispersed liberally along corridors and rooms, and a wine …
From Viña del Mar 1906 to London 2012: A Chilean family story
From Viña del Mar 1906 to London 2012 – A Chilean family story “Mientras escribo estoy ausente,Y cuando vuelvo ya he partido, voy a ver si a las otras gentes les pasa lo que a mi me pasa… “While I write I am absent and when I return I have already left; I am going to find out if other people experience the same thing as I do, if they are as many as I am, if they look like each other, and and when I have found all this …
Survey of India – Sleeping giant stirs.
The rural masses show their consumer power, writes Jimmy Burns. Kherala, in the state of Haryana, some 50km south of Delhi, fits the image of the age-old village whose traditional values Mahatma Gandhi sought to preserve. But take a closer look and you’ll discover the modern age tentatively knocking on many a front door. Set well back from the main highway to the capital, the bulk of Kherala’s population of 4,000 live in squat huts made of crude cane and cattle dung. But most of the huts have TVs, electrical …
