tourism

You know a city by it's bookstores, you know a bookstore by it's poetry shelfs.

Stepping out

Brin and Page, thank you.
Twenty years ago I was spending a little fortune on antique engineering books. You put them on line and there went their worth. But you put so many other book online....and I thank you...

The Balkans

My building's doorman is Albanian. I talked with him repeatedly about Skanderbeg, a movie I liked when I was a kid. He told me that in every town in Albania there is a statue of Skanderbeg. Two days ago I asked him about the earthquake. No, it did not hit his family,  They are from Kosovo! The Balkans...complicated.