Secret Monteverde
Beside the Doria Pamphlij park, off a busy road through Monteverde, lies a sacred bower. Here lies the barn-like 17th-century church of...
Forgotten Rome?
A glorious morning for a change and as luck would have it I had an appointment at the Villa Lante in the shadow of Garibaldi’s statue on...
Positano’s secret treasure
The Amalfi coast is breath-taking even on a day of torrential rain. Driving waves slam against the Sirens’ islands, Li Galli, crowning...
Buried No Longer
The Ephesos Museum is in the Haus der Geschichte Österreich in Vienna. Excavations over more than a century have produced wonderful...
George Soros and the inauguration of CEU’s Vienna campus
I first met George Soros in Tirana 20 years ago. His Open Society Foundations had little short of a holy status among young Albanians....
