So now we have a company in Dublin that claims to have ” hit upon a way of generating clean, free and constant energy from the interaction of magnetic fields.” Uh-huh. 420 scientists from around the world have signed up to test the system. Read the story here.

The other night we had a meal that was pure accident and pure wonderful. I happened to be at the Ta Lin Asian market, where you can buy large numbers of whole fish, many of which are too vast for our two-person household, let alone our oven. On impulse, I came home with a striped […]

You’ve been reading here about the up side of Turkey. The wonderful sights, the culture, the hospitality. So here’s an article on the flip side. Not content with last year’s aborted prosecution of the author Orhan Pamuk, Turkish fascists have chosen another target, Elif Shafak, whose The Bastard of Istanbul won the Best Novel award […]

3 April, 2006 Wonders of the World The early morning view from the hotel balcony was inspiring. The divinely blue Aegean that heaved in great foaming surges against the intriguing cavern just below in the rocks. The craggy coastline, the picturesque village, and the island of Delos across the channel, its outline tinted a delicate […]