Just west of Abu Sir, a minor road runs inland across reedy marshes, passing fragments of an ancient causeway (on the left) that connected Taposiris with the desert. There it meets BURG AL-ARAB , a model village resembling a walled,...
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The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, GHENT was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less...
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I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to...
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