A bite out of the Big Apple reveals the entrenched paranoia of the ultimate rat race — in more ways than one.
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A bite out of the Big Apple reveals the entrenched paranoia of the ultimate rat race — in more ways than one.
Continue readingScotland is a feeling as much as an experience, but some aspects, like Edinburgh Airport, are mismanaged and lead to misery for tourists.
Continue readingGetting away from it all — yet again — amid the roar of family and the festive season.
Continue readingSpending time in remote places brings real challenges, but they can make you all the more appreciative when you get back home.
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Resources are scarce on these Macaronesian islands. There is no rain, and life — plant and animal — clings on, desperately hoping for some kind of
Continue readingBy William J. Furney In a year marked by the loss of my father, whom I had lived with and helped care for during the past decade of his ill
Continue readingBy William J. Furney It’s all about speed and today’s crop of jetliners just don’t measure up. So says new US aviation firm Boom Supersonic. The Denver-based company’s mission is
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Garda (Irish police) checkpoints, traffic jammed and snaking back further than the eye can see, everything except places of business selling “essential services” shuttered for over
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Cases of coronavirus are breaking out all over Europe, but hospital emergency rooms are not overflowing and hardly anyone is now dying from the pathogen that
Continue readingBy William J. Furney I am wondering if it’s possible that I’m sitting across the narrow aisle from the most annoying person in the world. In a blaring brash voice,
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