Stories

Stories that matter. The people, fables and legends that have shaped our world. And the pervasive humanity that percolates us all.

Solo rides, the de facto way of traveling through North Iceland

Iceland: First Impressions

Iceland is a different planet. There are parts of Iceland that have served as various other countries on Planet Earth in a multitude of Hollywood movies. There are parts that were filmed as layers below the Earth's surface. There are still other parts that have served as entirely new planets.
Barbed wire along the bluff tops at the Normandy coast, looking towards Omaha Beach

75th Anniversary of D-Day

This June 6th marked the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Two of the most difficult operations carried out on June 6th 1944 were the takeover of Pointe du Hoc and the landing of the first troops at Omaha Beach.…

An idyllic village in Normandy, a few miles away from the D-Day beaches

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom

During the Battle of Normandy (Normandie), a staggering 425,000 troops were killed, wounded or went missing. Roughly half of these were Allied troops and the other half German. The Allies also captured an additional 200,000 prisoners of war, whose fate…

Christmas Market in the old town center of Prague

Do you believe in Santa Claus?

As we gear up for the benevolent Santa to mine his database of kids’ privacies to deliver ads, umm, gifts to the kids, it is hard to imagine that there are others data miners who are vying for the same…

Boy and pigeons against the backdrop of Sebilj, Baščaršija, Sarajevo

A Not So Pedestrian Bridge (World War 1)

On the morning of June 25th 1914, Archduke Prince Franz Ferdinand, the heir-apparent of the mega Austro-Hungarian empire, arrived in Sarajevo to do what heir-apparents of mega-empires do – walk the bazaars, shop, while inaugurating a few monuments. Though there…