Saffron Strands

Otto Wagner's Die Zeit Telegraph Office facade (1985 reconstruction) It was more than 30 years since I'd walked the streets of...

Silver Birch in January Barcelona We have "polar air" insists every swaddled Barcelonian we speak to.  It's mid-Januar...

The Tiber River from Trastevere, Rome It was the children's voices drifting up from the courtyard that roused us from sleep that f...

Pont de D. Luis I across the Douro at Porto We've been to Portugal enough times to know we're unlikely to bust our budget on t...