To Blog or Not to Blog, That Is the Question
I started this website more than 16 years ago to chronicle a year off, which turned into a four-year journey, which culminated in a decade...
Author: Theodora
On the Unbearable Dumbness of the Moment We’re In
Like so many, I fear, I’ve spent the past few days glued to one form of outrage machine or another as the United States—and, with...
What’s New, Pussycat?
Blogging is a habit that, once escaped, proves surprisingly hard to recapture. But I was prompted by an email from a reader to put paws...
Frankly, I Wouldn’t Recommend Getting Covid
Over the last year or so, I’d begun to come to the conclusion that – perhaps as a result of having dengue twice – I...
What Do Vaccines REALLY Mean for Travel?
During the heady days of 2020 when the pandemic was a new arrival and lockdowns a short-term novelty, popular wisdom among travel industry folks held...
Happy New Year: The Worst Is Yet to Come
The turn of a year is usually a time for optimism, for chucking out the carcass of a bad year and looking forward to a...
Easing Lockdown Is the Hardest Part of This Pandemic
Since I bailed from Dubrovnik with Covid on my heels at the end of February, Zach and I have stayed, exclusively, in a little flat...
Let’s Not All Start Flying Again
Long, long ago in the times BC (Before Covid), when 2020 was the start of a new decade rather than the dawn of the fire-flood-locusts-plague-unrest...
Fantasy Friday: Bruges Coulda Been a Contender
Bruges is crazy beautiful. Every bit as pretty as you’d expect a Hanseatic canal city to be, and even more opulent too. Particularly in January,...
Fantasy Friday: the Hameau
Inspiration for a myriad Middle Eastern dictators, sundry competing Habsburgs, and, of course, the Trump Organization, Versailles needs no introduction. It’s as big, and as...