I was looking forward to go back to the great design hotel The Vine, where I have already stayed in 2012 and 2015. The multiple...

Quintinha de São João in Funchal, Madeira is a traditional, old-fashioned, Portuguese style family hotel with only 42 rooms....

In 1801, João José Xavier de Carvalhal Esmeraldo Bettencourt Vasconcelos Sá Machado da Câmara Leme (1778-1837; sorry for the...

Hotel Casa Velha do Palheiro is part of the Palheiro Nature Estate owned by the Blandy family, famous around the globe for their...

My hotel review of the Pestana Carlton Madeira has to start with a charming detail: instead of “Do Not Disturb”, the sign to put on your door reads in big letters: “Having...

The five-star hotel The Cliff Bay in Funchal, Madeira offers understated luxury. Set on a promontory, The Cliff Bay offers direct...

Hotel Porto Santa Maria in Funchal — the city name is the adjective of the Portuguese word for “fennel” — is part...

On September 29, 2020 (US time) the first presidential debate between President Donald J. Trump and his challenger Joe Biden took...

In the summer of 1945, the famous war photographer Robert Capa documented the German capital, bombed to the ground. From September 9, 2020 until April 30, 2021 a selection of 120 of those...

Instant time travel? Yes, that’s possible! Listen to Georg Friedrich Händel’s (aka Handel) Agrippina and, with the...

The book Kairouan or how Paul Klee became a Painter was written in 1921 by Wilhelm Hausenstein, one of the first to recognize the...

From August 29 until November 29, 2020 the Gerhard Richter Archiv at the Saxony state museum Albertinum in Dresden showcases Gerd...

Here comes the full transcript of President Trump’s Republican National Convention (RNC) speech, held on August 27,...

Full transcript of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s speech to the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC), as...

A history of Babingtons Tea Rooms In 1893, two young English ladies decided to establish a tea room in the Eternal City: Isabel Cargill, daughter of Captain Cargill, founder of the city of...

The American critic, curator and author Richard Speer has written a wonderful and enlightening book called The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan. It was published in connection with...

Near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq on January 3, 2020 a United States drone strike ordered by U.S. President Trump...

Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Illuminated is a scientific publication by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (Amazon.com,...

In 2019, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam showed the exhibition Van Gogh and the Sunflowers. A Masterpiece Examined and published a catalogue with the same title. The museum showed the...

President Donald Trump is unfit to lead the United States through the pandemic, the economic and social crisis, the peaceful...