Bert's Travels

The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire...

Small part of the Midway by day... ...and by night

The official opening, of course, is a parade, headed by Bleiburg's mayor and other dignitaries, followed by brass bands, and Groups feat...

I wrote about this annual festival last year, but it bears repeating. This year, 2014, is the 621st "Bleiburg Wiesenmarkt" ( Mark...

It is only a viscious rumour that we stayed overnight in this hotel. In fact, we travelled  by land rover  and spent our nights in ...

Wu Shaoxiang and Jiang Shuo are a husband and wife team of Chinese artists.  After the massacre in the Tiananmen Square in 1989, they immig...

Somewhere, in this Blog, not so long ago, I expressed some thoughts about prayer and came to the conclusion that prayer is either "usel...