Journal

Leaving Tangier: To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.

Stralsund, 21 August 1821: A sea divides us from my dear Agathe, but my thoughts are with you. I have much to tell you. Yes, I rejoice with all my heart that the one for…

It was Friday, the 8th of May 1908, and Scutari was asleep—even the dogs still lay curled tight together in the lanes—when we set out on foot into the grey dawn and left the town…

Distant, ever more distant, far too distant and mythical Palermo. Everywhere and at every moment of my childhood I heard about Palermo as a mysterious place. The statements were always contradictory, astonishing, and frightening.

Although Palma, with its 48,691 inhabitants, at first gives newcomers the impression of a somewhat lively and monotonous city, anyone who becomes better acquainted with its population and learns to appreciate their good qualities soon…

In the middle of the seventeenth century the praetorian senate, today’s city council of Palermo, decided to make Benedetto da San Fratello, called “Benedict the Moor,” one of the patron saints of the city: a…

Azulejos and street art meet us at every turn in Lisbon. But what is traditionally understood as "art" is also abundantly present. Today there are at least 150 museums, galleries, and exhibition spaces run by…