Not in the Alps, but still woke up to this! It is very rural here, and the crossing into Switzerland across the Doubs River was remote and mysterious, with snow…
The Salton Sea is always described as a monumental engineer’s mistake. Over a hundred years ago, somebody accidentally diverted all of the Colorado River into a dry basin in California.…
“Language thou art too narrow, and too weak To ease us now; great sorrow cannot speak.” Words attributed to John Donne around 1617, which I found yesterday in the used…
