jane’s favorites
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Capitalist Payback: Budapest's Statue Park
Photo Essay by Alexis Gerard, 22 December 2007
In the suburbs of Budapest, a surreal collection of monumental soviet-era statues atone for the sins of communism by generating tourist dollars and euros.
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. Isla Fuerte: fried fish & hypnotic blue sky .
Photo Essay by astronauta perdido, 27 December 2007
. a paradise with hammocks, palm trees and a blue hypnotic sky, surrounded by a blue-greenish sea .
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Dad's breakfast...
Photo Essay by Yusuf Özkızıl, 28 December 2007
a table top guide to the elements of a simple, traditional Turkish breakfast
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Midwestern Thoughts During 40 Hours in LA
Story by Will Hindmarch, 30 December 2007
After twenty years, I was back in Los Angeles. This is my brother's town.
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A Ghost Ship on San Francisco's Shores
Story by Jonathan Haeber, 3 January 2008
More than five decades ago a great Atlantic ocean liner, the SS Independence, proudly steamed to exotic Mediterranean ports while serving up the finest caviar and champagne. Today, she's a ghost ship, and I'll tell you what it's like to be inside.
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The Los Angeles Sky
Story by Polly Cole, 4 January 2008
Blue skies, wispy clouds, and a dash of smog is the perfect recipe for a brilliant sunset.
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Rugs and Ruins
Story by Danielle van Dobben, 9 January 2008
A family visits two famous sites on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Ephesus, the best-preserved classical city in the eastern Mediterranean, offers the chance to climb through ancient ruins and walk in the footsteps of the Romans.
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An unusual birthday celebration in Granada, Spain
Story by Danielle van Dobben, 9 January 2008
An expat living in Sevilla decides to take herself to Granada for her birthday. She spends an afternoon in the Alhambra, overwhelmed by the details of beauty and surprised at her own reactions.
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The Necessity of Sleep
How To by Jace Freeman, 9 January 2008
Only the bare necessities need to be packed on a shoestring budgeted forty-day excursion in Europe.
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Moonshine, a new French Infatuation
Story by rich and ruth carlson (aka Axel Olson), 11 January 2008
In the small village of Herisson in the Auvergne region of France, there lives a retired thespian who makes moonshine. Who'd think that in a town of less than 500 people this man who once performed on stage all over Europe would pal up with an American f
