Today everyone is busy voting at the local elections so, en route, I took a bus trip into the City of Southampton and picked
up a copy of /International Herald Tribune/ and indeed it provides interesting reading...
Renewal? Or a Potemkin Grozny? Well you may ask these questions! Apparently by the end of the year you will not recognise the place ...
according to Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechyna's new Prime Minister ... good heavens ... it must be just like here! I wouldn't recognise the old place in a ten year absence ... /where have all the flowers gone/ ...
Angel Merkel is making waves .. she is on her way to Washington ... she shall not be /put off/ what she is doing in Germany but in this case her portfolio is Iran santions dispute! Peace comes dropping slowly ... according to WB
Years the Great Irish Poet!
German public housing attracts foreign buyers ... in fact, only this minute I looked into the possibility of investing in German Speaking Europe! Will keep you posted on the outcome!
I am an art lover and have spent years admiring works of Art in Paris, London, Dublin and New York and I have had fleeting glimpses into art exhinitions in Istanbul! So my attention is drawn to ...
Van Gogh's "L'Arlesienne" which sold at a Christie's auction in New York for ... wait for it ...
$40.33 million in contrast to a flower stil life by Pissarro in 1876 still unsold! I must save up my money and try and BUY it!
International reading ... good stuff!