Stories from travels in

Mary Murphy

Eating out with architects

Every Wednesday morning for the last eight weeks or so, I have been wandering through the 8th district, at the Kálvin tér end… on Múzeum

Real Madrid

And, no, I’ve not gone over the other side. But even I had to respect the greatness that is Real Madrid and pay homage when

Back to Bratislava…again

It’s hard to say what it is that keeps taking me back to Bratislava… apart from second-time visitors to Budapest wanting to broaden their horizons.

The sacrifical rose

There is something strangely evocative about this picture. In Slovenia, in the Karst region, they plant rose bushes at both ends of a row of vines

Kdo? Kaj? Kje? Kda?

K-doh? Ky? Key-vay? K-day? Doesn’t make it any easier does it? Simple questions though, if you know Slovenian. Kdo – who? Me. Kaj – what?

Venice, masks, and Stendahl’s syndrome

Back in 1817, a French Romantic novelist Henri-Marie Byle who wrote under the pen name ‘Stendahl’ was visiting Florence. While visiting the Basilica of Saint