Tips & Reviews

Monica Malpezzi Price Reviews Although there are many of us who are passionate about bicycling and bicycle touring, I don’t know of anyone that considers bicycle touring a life or death situation….. but Riaan Manser has! When this South African… Read full article

The Tour de France Companion by Bob Roll Bob Roll’s Nuts, Bolts and Spokes on the famous Tour This is a great book, just out, for those of us who haven’t had time to follow the Tour de France every year… Read full article

Imagining History: Imagining Argentina & Chile This list of three movies and one just-published novel that are about as good a starter set as you could find for Chile and Argentina.   The Mission (1986) by Roland Joffe; Evita (1996)… Read full article

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (Atheneum, 1969) Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War by Laurie Lee (New Press, Reprint Edition, 1994)… Read full article

Book Review: The Places in Between by Rory Stewart Originally published in London by Picador, 2004 US Paperback edition Harcourt, Inc., 2006 by Rory Stewart About walking through remote regions of planet earth . . . (Note: ExperiencePlus! is not… Read full article

On Italian Politics, Landscapes and Two Movies about the Po Valley The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L’Albero degli Zoccoli)  by Ermanno Olmi, 1978 1900 (Novecento) by Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976 I’ve been observing Italy since 1966 when I first visited this… Read full article

Pelle the Conqueror/ Smilla’s Sense of Snow/Babette’s Feast   Pelle the Conqueror by Martin Anderson Nexö (Fjord Press, first printed 1906) Smilla’s Sense of Snowby Peter Hoeg (Delta; Reprint edition)   Babette’s Feast by Baronness Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen… Read full article

The Delights of Delicate Eating by Elizabeth Robins Pennell It’s not likely that you’ve heard of Elizabeth Robins Pennell or that you associate her with Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher or Elizabeth David. But just as these three women – two… Read full article

Movie Review The Third Man (1949) Produced by Carol Reed, Screenplay by Graham Greene Starring Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Joseph Cotton, and Alida Valli There is no better reminder and introduction to the history of Austria in mid-20th century than… Read full article

Race Book Reviews We hope you’ll be able to join us in France next summer for the 101st anniversary of The Race. If you are able to come, then the selection of readings in my review this month will help… Read full article

In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor, 2001, pp. 232. Did you know that the children’s rhyme ‘Ring Around the Rosies’ was first sung in sixteenth-century England… Read full article